OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject. There are separate […] This story continues at The Next Web
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August 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks
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