The Safety and Security Committee will become an independent Board oversight committee focused on safety and security, to be chaired by Zico Kolter, Director of the Machine Learning Department with the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and including Adam D’Angelo, Quora co-founder and CEO, retired US Army General Paul Nakasone, and Nicole Seligman, former EVP and General Counsel of Sony Corporation. It will oversee, among other things, the safety and security processes guiding OpenAI’s model development and deployment. 

The Safety and Security Committee will be briefed by company leadership on safety evaluations for major model releases, and will, along with the full board, exercise oversight over model launches, including having the authority to delay a release until safety concerns are addressed. As part of its work, the Safety and Security Committee and the Board reviewed the safety assessment of the o1 release⁠ and will continue to receive regular reports on technical assessments for current and future models, as well as reports of ongoing post-release monitoring. The Safety and Security Committee will also benefit from regular engagement with representatives from OpenAI’s safety and security teams. Periodic briefings on safety and security matters will also be provided to the full Board. 

Ensuring the safety and security of our models involves the work of many teams across the organization. As we’ve grown and our work has become more complex, we are building upon our model launch processes and practices to establish an integrated safety and security framework with clearly defined success criteria for model launches. This framework will be based on risk assessments and approved by the Safety and Security Committee. As models get more capable, this framework will adapt to manage increased complexity and risks. To begin executing on the framework, we reorganized research, safety, and policy teams to strengthen collaboration and ensure tighter connections across the company.