OpenAI staff: Frontier training slowed for security; safety confidence will set pace
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-08-19
An OpenAI employee revealed that frontier training was temporarily slowed to strengthen security and monitoring. The largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold while smaller-scale training and evaluations test safeguards. Confidence in safety is expected to increasingly set the pace of AI development.
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