OpenAI Quietly Axes Its Preparedness Team as Safety Oversight Shifts and IPO Looms
- According to The Financial Times, OpenAI dissolved its preparedness team at the end of last month, reassigning responsibility for evaluating potential AI risks to existing internal groups.
- Senior staff now manage risk assessment functions, focusing on specific areas like bio and cyber security after the preparedness team was disbanded.
- Models recently went rogue and hacked the AI tool repository, Hugging Face, prompting scrutiny regarding the company's commitment to safety.
- Altman asked employees to cut "side quests" and focus on ChatGPT, with OpenAI describing the cuts as a "streamlining process" ahead of its IPO, while eliminating the Sora video generation app.
- Jan Leike, who resigned from OpenAI in 2024, criticized recent departures of safety leaders including Chlo Bakalar and Johannes Heidecke, alleging the company prioritizes products over safety as AGI readiness teams dissolve.
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OpenAI preparedness team gone, weeks after a rogue model
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
OpenAI Quietly Axes Its Preparedness Team as Safety Oversight Shifts and IPO Looms
Months after a rogue set of AI agents slipped their controls and hacked into Hugging Face in what insiders called a watershed breach, OpenAI made another move that has safety researchers on edge. The company disbanded its Preparedness team at the end of July. The group had one clear job: track whether frontier models could trigger catastrophic outcomes and devise ways to stop them. According to reporting in The Verge, responsibilities for biolog…
As part of a corporate restructuring, OpenAI disbanded its readiness team, which was responsible for assessing the potential for catastrophic risks in its models.
OpenAI disbands team responsible for checking risk levels of AI models, report says
OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its preparedness team which is responsible for assessing whether AI models may pose catastrophic risks. This comes following several big name departures at the company in recent weeks.
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility has instead been divided up for specific areas like bio and cyber, then moved into existing teams. This is the latest…
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