Special Projects (2016)
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- ▪In this post, we list several problem areas likely to be important both for advancing AI and for its long-run impact on society.We see these problems as having either very broad implications, or addressing important emerging consequences of
- ▪If you are a strong machine learning expert and wish to start an effort on one of these problems at OpenAI, please submit an application.Detect if someone is using a covert breakthrough AI system in the world.
- ▪As the number of organizations and resources allocated to AI research increases, the probability increases that an organization will make an undisclosed AI breakthrough and use the system for potentially malicious ends.
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| Original publisher | OpenAI |
| Canonical URL | https://openai.com/index/special-projects/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:55:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T09:30:32.506Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T09:30:32.506Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 6H4sUiRKIG4v · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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July 28, 2016CompanySpecial projectsImpactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter.Illustration: Justin Jay WangLoading…ShareImpactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter. In this post, we list several problem areas likely to be important both for advancing AI and for its long-run impact on society.We see these problems as having either very broad implications, or addressing important emerging consequences of AI development.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at OpenAI.
