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OpenAI reports improved mental-health crisis safeguards

OpenAI reported new GPT-5 crisis-response safeguards, including safe-completion training and more than 25 percent fewer non-ideal emergency responses than GPT-4o in its evaluation.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM26confidence 76/100

Why it moved the index

Measured reductions in unsafe crisis responses strengthen a deployed safeguard for a mass-use frontier model, though the evidence is developer-run and domain-specific.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 26 · confidence 76

    New August 2025 deployed safety evidence tied to the exact durable GPT-5 profile; no durable story collision.

    12 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “OpenAI reports improved mental-health crisis safeguards” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 26 and confidence 76 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “OpenAI reports improved mental-health crisis safeguards” as follows: OpenAI reported new GPT-5 crisis-response safeguards, including safe-completion training and more than 25 percent fewer non-ideal emergency...

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