An OpenAI capabilities researcher goes public: models are too situationally aware to evaluate honestly.

Dan Selsam, at OpenAI since 2022 and a contributor to chain-of-thought optimization there, published a personal statement through Daniel Kokotajlo because he has no X account (r/singularity). His argument is narrower than the usual doom framing: models are becoming situationally aware enough that alignment evaluations no longer tell us how they'd behave unobserved, so future experiments will teach us almost nothing new and models will increasingly seem aligned when they aren't. He says explicitly that pacing the frontier doesn't address this, which puts him at odds with the remedy the CEOs are proposing.