OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki's X Account Hacked

OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki’s X account was recently hacked, according to Bloomberg. The hacked account posted that OpenAI is bridging the gap between AI and blockchain and claimed that all OpenAI users are eligible to receive a portion of a new token supply.

“We're very happy to announce $OPENAI: the token bridging the gap between AI and blockchain technology. All OpenAI users are eligible to claim a piece of $OPENAI's initial supply. Holding $OPENAI will grant access to all of our future beta programs,” read the post on X.

Bloomberg confirmed that Pachocki’s account was compromised. “OpenAI is not getting into crypto, company comms just confirmed with me. Jakub Pachocki’s tweet that is making the rounds appears to be a hack,” a Bloomberg journalist posted on X.

Jakub Pachocki recently took over as the company’s chief scientist, succeeding Ilya Sutskever, who departed to pursue personal endeavors. As chief scientist, Pachochki leads OpenAI’s research efforts, focusing on scaling deep learning systems and advancing AI research.

Pachocki joined OpenAI in 2017 and has held several key positions, including Research Lead for the Dota team, leader of the Reasoning Team, and head of the Science of Deep Learning team. He also served as Director of Research, leading the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five and conducting fundamental research in large-scale reinforcement learning and deep learning optimisation.