OpenAI Reportedly Disbands Preparedness Team as Safety Concerns Grow
Current and former OpenAI employees told Wired that competitive pressure to ship models is crowding out safety work, with the Hugging Face incident reportedly prompting a cultural rethink. The Financial Times also reports OpenAI quietly disbanded its frontier-risk Preparedness team last month, splitting its duties among other teams.
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