OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

“As models advance and become more widely deployed, decisions about AI development need evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine,” Kai Chen, OpenAI’s newly appointed head of alignment research, tells WIRED. “We don't believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed.”

In a briefing with WIRED, an OpenAI official said the company previously disclosed misalignment incidents too infrequently. The official, who agreed to the briefing on the condition of anonymity, said the new framework is designed to make it easier for OpenAI to quickly inform the public when it discovers that its AI models are behaving in unexpected ways, even before it can fully investigate, explain, or mitigate the behavior.