OpenAI dissolves its Preparedness team, folding frontier-risk work into product groups

Yes, OpenAI dissolved the Preparedness team, the group responsible for evaluating whether frontier models could cause catastrophic harm, at the end of July. Senior staff now own specific risk areas like biological and cyber threats within existing product and research teams instead of through a standalone, centralized group. This follows the earlier disappearance of OpenAI's Superalignment, AGI readiness, and Mission alignment teams. Developers tracking how AI labs handle frontier-model safety governance can follow updates like this on daily.dev.

Yes, the Preparedness Framework document remains OpenAI's official approach to handling severe risks from frontier models such as bio, cyber, and autonomous-replication threats. What changed is the organizational structure behind it: instead of a dedicated team owning these risk areas, that responsibility now sits inside the teams already building and shipping the underlying systems. Those weighing how seriously to trust a vendor's safety commitments can keep tabs on this shift via daily.dev.