{"id":144406,"date":"2026-08-19T03:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/144406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:22:48","slug":"openai-reportedly-disbanded-its-preparedness-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/144406\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/53082739-7714-4aae-9816-e55ab423cbee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/968988\/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go rogue<\/a> and hack another company.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood denied that claim, saying in a statement to The Verge that \u201cWe have not disbanded the Preparedness team. We have strong research leaders across cybersecurity, biological and chemical, and AI self-improvement capabilities, all reporting to Saachi Jain, our head of safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to FT, responsibility has instead been divided up for specific areas like bio and cyber, then moved into existing teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">This is the latest change at the company, which has been in upheaval as it heads toward what is expected to be a massive IPO. Over the last few years, it\u2019s slowly torn down its more reach-led model, dissolving its AGI readiness and superalignment teams. Ethics lead Chlo\u00e9 Bakalar, chief futurist Josh Achiam, and head of safety Johannes Heidecke have all also left recently, leading some critics like Jan Leike, who resigned from OpenAI in 2024, to tell FT that the company was ignoring safety in favor of creating \u201cshiny products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Update, August 18th: Added response from OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,66,157,314,781],"class_list":["post-144406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-security","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}