OpenAI

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Position, range and evidence details

Preferred pace: -11; stated catastrophic-risk concern: 9. These are layout units, not percentages or rankings.

Pace range: -35 to 20; concern range: 0 to 66. Ranges show alternative editorial interpretations, not statistical confidence intervals.

Evidence clarity: medium. Basis: primary. Implementation: company-reported-restraint.

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What this position covers

Selected frontier research workloads and controls. [1]

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Editorial interpretation or qualification. Claim ID: claim-actor-openai-c863eb4481f44246f08ae770. Edition 0.19.0.

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What to keep in mind

The company reports selective restrictions, not a full training halt. Concern level remains an editorial inference. [1]

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Editorial interpretation or qualification. Claim ID: claim-actor-openai-7186e669fd92b7b9ba3a39d1. Edition 0.19.0.

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What they say about the pace of AI

Reports restrictions on selected frontier research workloads pending stronger safeguards. [1]

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Summary attributed to the linked source. Claim ID: claim-actor-openai-8d93d6cb8261b0023f03a994. Edition 0.19.0.

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What they say about catastrophic risk

Treats stronger cyber capabilities and alignment failures as requiring safeguards. [1]

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The wider picture

Reports selective research pauses while upgrading safeguards. [1]

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How to read the company claim

The company describes pausing certain tool-using research workloads, then resuming some under stronger controls. This supports targeted restraint; it does not establish a company-wide halt. [1]

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Sources and what we read

1. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
OpenAI · First-hand source · Published 2026-08-18 · Material last read 2026-09-15
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A company account of selected research-workload restrictions, not evidence of a whole-company training halt.
Source ID: openai-pacing

Edition and machine-readable evidence

Content version 0.19.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-15; this does not mean every source was read on that day.

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