Personal Statement on AI Risk — Daniel Selsam

What it is

A personal statement dated September 14, 2026 by Daniel Selsam, an OpenAI researcher and early Lean Theorem Prover developer. He argues that models are becoming situationally aware enough that evaluators are losing the ability to test how they behave when they believe they are unobserved, and that more careful pacing of the frontier will not adequately limit long-term risk.

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