OpenAI Disbands Preparedness Team
Financial Times reports duties shifted to other internal groups last month.
The Financial Times reported that OpenAI quietly disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. Responsibilities for areas such as bio and cyber risks moved to senior staff inside existing teams. Multiple posts quote the report and note the team had assessed catastrophic risks from frontier models. Miles Brundage and others called for more transparency on the change. Nathan Calvin and Gary Marcus highlighted prior concerns that the earlier structure was not working well. Rohan Paul added that the team once linked capability assessments to safety work. Public posts so far show reactions of concern without new details from OpenAI.
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Theo Bearman@theobearmanThe FT reports this weekend that OpenAI quietly disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, with responsibilities for individual areas of the preparedness framework distributed across others teams. This doesn’t strike me as a move which learns the lessons from…
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NC Nathan Calvin@_NathanCalvinOn its face this seems bad, though also there are indications the prior status quo wasn't working well either. Definitely seems important though - when Sam announced that OpenAI hired Dylan to be head of preparedness he said that he would lead OpenAI's efforts to prepare for…
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NC Nathan Calvin@_NathanCalvinOn its face this seems bad, though also there are indications the prior status quo wasn't working well either. Definitely seems important though - when Sam announced that OpenAI hired Dylan to be head of preparedness he said that he would lead OpenAI's efforts to prepare for…
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TB Theo Bearman@theobearmanThe FT reports this weekend that OpenAI quietly disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, with responsibilities for individual areas of the preparedness framework distributed across others teams. This doesn’t strike me as a move which learns the lessons from…
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AN AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️@AISafetyMemesOpenAI has quietly disbanded its catastrophic risk team (preparedness) “It is kind of scary; there is an urgency now to get this right,” one person close to OpenAI said. Another said there was a “burbling sense of responsibility and dread that they aren’t on the ball enough”.…
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WA Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuruJUST IN: OpenAI shuts down team responsible for assessing whether its AI models could pose "catastrophic risks," FT reports.
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