OpenAI Dissolves Preparedness Team to Reshuffle Safety Before First Public Listing

OpenAI shuttered its unit tasked with catastrophic risk assessment at the end of July and saw a series of senior executives leave the company. The dissolved Preparedness team was responsible for testing whether the company's models posed catastrophic risks, with its biological and cyber security functions moved to other teams.

These structural shifts and leadership changes have unsettled employees as the company prepares for a public listing. The firm distributed the responsibilities of its preparedness framework across remaining teams to manage risk ahead of the debut.