Safety and alignment

OpenAI adopts capability thresholds for catastrophic frontier risks

OpenAI published a Preparedness Framework for evaluating cyber, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, persuasion and model-autonomy risks, with deployment and development thresholds later used for frontier releases.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM55confidence 96/100

Why it moved the index

The framework established capability-triggered development and deployment gates for catastrophic risks and was later applied in published frontier-model evaluations, making it an operational control rather than a proposal.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 55 · confidence 96

    New December 2023 frontier-risk framework with later verified implementation.

    12 Aug 2026