OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks
The Decoder · rss · 2026-08-16
OpenAI has shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been reassigned to existing groups, and several safety staffers have left. Internally, unease is building, with sources describing a "burbling sense of responsibility and dread" that OpenAI isn't doing enough on safety.
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