Safety researcher joins OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee, stresses externally verifiable oversight
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-10
In a standalone statement, the AI safety researcher joining OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee (SSC) says the committee's role in overseeing risk management is important and challenging, and that he hopes to help at a critical moment. He emphasizes the move is neither an endorsement nor a criticism of OpenAI's safety practices, urges all frontier companies to strengthen safety oversight, and argues the world should judge OpenAI and all AI developers by externally verifiable behavior and results.
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