OpenAI safety practices
Artificial general intelligence has the potential to benefit nearly every aspect of our lives—so it must be developed and deployed responsibly.
Artificial general intelligence has the potential to benefit nearly every aspect of our lives—so it must be developed and deployed responsibly.
Ensuring that AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely is critical to our mission.
We describe our latest thinking in the hope of helping other AI developers address safety and misuse of deployed models.
We’ve written a policy research paper identifying four strategies that can be used today to improve the likelihood of long-term industry cooperation on safety norms in AI: communicating risks and benefits, technical collaboration, increased transparency, and incentivizing standards. Our analysis shows that industry cooperation on safety will be instrumental in ensuring that AI systems are safe and beneficial, but competitive pressures could lead to a collective action problem, potentially causing AI companies to under-invest in safety.
arXiv:2604. 00547v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unified Multimodal Large Models (UMLMs) integrate understanding and generation capabilities within a single architecture.
arXiv:2608. 07535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) integrate heterogeneous modalities through modality alignment and fusion, enabling stronger understanding and reasoning.
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.
arXiv:2607. 10878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are evolving from answer engines into persistent teams that use tools, delegate work, learn from experience, and modify the artifacts that shape their future behavior.
arXiv:2606. 05177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing multimodal safety benchmarks focus solely on visual inputs and cannot assess Omni Large Language Models (LLMs) that process vision, audio, and text.
Discover how SafetyKit leverages OpenAI GPT-5 to enhance content moderation, enforce compliance, and outpace legacy safety systems with greater accuracy .
arXiv:2505. 22829v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper bridges distribution shift and AI safety through a comprehensive analysis of their conceptual and methodological synergies.