OpenAI Blog
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Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.
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