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OpenAI Preparedness Framework

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At a glance

OpenAI framework for tracking severe capability risks and applying safeguards before deployment.

Its current place in the ecosystem spans standards and assurance, dangerous-capability evaluation, and frontier AI development.

Current work and relevance

SIRDA's current research record connects OpenAI Preparedness Framework most directly to standards and assurance, dangerous-capability evaluation, frontier AI development. Its profile should be updated when those priorities, affiliations, or published programs materially change.

SIRDA tracks OpenAI Preparedness Framework because its work is materially connected to advanced-AI safety and to the network of evidence, institutions, and proposals under examination.

Current significance for SIRDA

OpenAI's Preparedness Framework is a live threshold-and-safeguard system for severe frontier-model risks. Its importance increased materially in September 2026 when OpenAI reported that GPT-6 Astra reached the Framework's Critical cybersecurity threshold, making the framework a real-world test of what happens when a developer's own capability boundary is crossed.

SIRDA uses the framework as concrete prior art for Q001, Q005, and Q006: how thresholds are defined, how evaluations establish that they have been crossed, and how obligations change afterward. The framework also illustrates the difference between internal corporate governance and the wider constitutional problem of authorizing decisions that impose consequences across organizations and states.

Relationship web

  • OpenAI: OpenAI publishes the Preparedness Framework

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Editorial note

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Documented connections

  • OpenAI Publishes OpenAI Preparedness Framework — OpenAI publishes the Preparedness Framework