According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month.
The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility has instead been divided up for specific areas like bio and cyber, then moved into existing teams.
This is the latest change at the company, which has been in upheaval as it heads towards what is expected to be a massive IPO.
Over the last few years, it's slowly torn down its more reach-led model, dissolving its AG … Read the full story at The Verge.