An Alien Mind: OpenAI's Chief Scientist Just Described the Problem We Built the Instruments For

On 6 September 2026 the Chief Scientist of the leading AI lab published “An Alien Mind” — an on-the-record admission that models are grown not understood, that chain-of-thought monitoring is progressively diminishing, that recursive self-improvement is the plan, and that safety must be gated by third-party auditors. We agree with every line. Then we show the part the essay leaves out: the working instruments enforcement actually runs on.