OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior
“We don't believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed.”In a briefing with WIRED, an OpenAI official said the company previously disclosed misalignment incidents too infrequently. In the future, OpenAI says it plans to develop more objective disclosure criteria in collaboration with other AI developers, external researchers, industry standards bodies, and regulators. “We hope that the framework we’re outlining today is a first step toward creating such standards, setting out which misalignment instances developers should disclose and what their reports should contain.”OpenAI is releasing the framework at a critical juncture for the AI industry.
- ▪“We don't believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed.”In a briefing with WIRED, an OpenAI official said the company previously disclosed misalignm
- ▪In the future, OpenAI says it plans to develop more objective disclosure criteria in collaboration with other AI developers, external researchers, industry standards bodies, and regulators.
- ▪“We hope that the framework we’re outlining today is a first step toward creating such standards, setting out which misalignment instances developers should disclose and what their reports should contain.”OpenAI is releasing the framework a
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Maxwell ZeffBusinessSep 16, 2026 6:07 PMOpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI BehaviorThe company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked.Photograph: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyOpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar standards across the industry.
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