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OpenAI revises its Model Spec around human intent, agency and side-effect control

OpenAI published a revised behavioral specification organized around five values, adding context and human-agency guidance and expanding rules for controlling and communicating side effects. It describes intended behavior, not achieved alignment: OpenAI says its models do not yet fully reflect the specification and promises future training results. No exact model version or measured reliability improvement is established by this update.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM32confidence 60/100

Why it moved the index

More explicit instructions for preserving human agency and managing consequential side effects clarify an advanced-AI control objective. Magnitude 32 reflects a normative governance update, not a validated safeguard; confidence is capped at 60 because improved control is one plausible inference and the publisher explicitly says deployed models do not yet fully implement the specification.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 32 · confidence 60

    Adds the dated specification revision with explicit limits on claims about implemented alignment or exact model changes.

    31 Oct 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “OpenAI revises its Model Spec around human intent, agency and side-effect control” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 32 and confidence 60 out of 100 in the governance and control category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “OpenAI revises its Model Spec around human intent, agency and side-effect control” as follows: OpenAI published a revised behavioral specification organized around five values, adding context and human-agency...

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