OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training to Address Safety Alignment Gap
trevposts · x · 2026-08-19
Sam Altman announced that OpenAI has paused some frontier RL training to ensure alignment, security, and monitoring standards meet the level of new capabilities. He noted that model progress is extremely rapid and outpacing safety alignment. Altman emphasized that confidence in safety will increasingly set the pace of AI progress and called for industry coordination on shared safety standards.
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