person

Jakub Pachocki

OpenAI Chief Scientist (since 2024)

OpenAI's chief scientist since May 2024, succeeding Ilya Sutskever. Former lead on the GPT-4 research effort.

current Chief Scientist, OpenAI

@merettm

Strategy positions

Race to aligned SIendorses

Build aligned superintelligence first, before adversaries

Argues OpenAI's mission of ensuring AGI benefits humanity requires being at the frontier; frames scaling as the path to superintelligence and safety as integral to that path.

We're confident in our ability to deliver on our mission, and Jakub will lead our research as we continue to push the frontier of AI.

Context: Sam Altman's announcement of Pachocki's elevation following Sutskever's departure.

¶ articleOpenAI announces leadership changes· OpenAI· 2024-05-15· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Jakub Pachocki's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Alex Karp
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CEO of Palantir
Alex Wang
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Founder of Scale AI; data infrastructure for frontier models
Carl Shulman
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Open Phil senior research analyst; AGI takeoff economics
Daniel Eth
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Foresight Institute alignment researcher
Eric Schmidt
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Former Google CEO; AI national security advocate
Kara Frederick
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Heritage Foundation tech policy director

Record last updated 2026-04-25.