OpenAI disbands Preparedness team for the second time
X-Risk Daily
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Transformative AI
OpenAI has again dissolved its Preparedness team, the unit tasked with assessing whether frontier models could enable catastrophic harms such as bioweapons, chemical or nuclear threats, cyberattacks, or rogue self-improving systems.
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