OpenAI
Sources used: First-hand material.
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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.
Record status: Published record
What this status means
This is a published Atlas record with no open challenge recorded in this edition. It is not a guarantee that the sources are current or the interpretation is correct.
Status recorded: 2026-09-16. This is separate from the source-reading and actor-review dates.
Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 1
Newest dated source: 2026-08-18
At least one source was published within the 18-month window.
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
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What this position covers
Selected frontier research workloads and controls. [1]
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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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What they say about the pace of AI
Reports restrictions on selected frontier research workloads pending stronger safeguards. [1]
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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
Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 1
Newest dated source: 2026-08-18
At least one source was published within the 18-month window.
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
A company account of selected research-workload restrictions, not evidence of a whole-company training halt.
Edition and machine-readable evidence
Content version 0.22.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-16; this does not mean every source was read on that day.
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