OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
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Merging safety back into OpenAI’s research org and losing the head of safety systems is a governance signal—safety is being treated as an integrated constraint rather than a standalone veto point. If you depend on frontier models, watch how this affects published safety processes and timelines, and make sure your own risk posture doesn’t assume an external safety gate that may be in flux.
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