The Promise Tracker · checked Nov 10, 2026
OpenAI is a US SI developer that makes the GPT models and ChatGPT. It has made 7 public safety promises tracked here: 3 kept, 1 not met, 2 in progress, 1 no public evidence yet. Each one links to its primary source, and every Kept, Not met or Withdrawn status names the public source that reports it. On the Containment Board, OpenAI gets B.
Every promise
The exact words when they are short enough, the primary source, the status with its own source, and the day each entry was checked.
OpenAI, a signatory of the EU Code of Practice
Summary in our words
Source The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: signatories European Commission ·
In progress. The European Commission lists the signature (page updated Oct 7, 2026); the EU AI Office has not published an assessment of compliance.
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OpenAI, Preparedness Framework version 2
Exact words
"Until we have specified safeguards and security controls that would meet a Critical standard, halt further development"
Source Preparedness Framework, Version 2 OpenAI ·
In progress. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra System Card (Sep 3, 2026) rates the model Critical in cybersecurity. FLI reported on Jul 14, 2026 that OpenAI has rolled back commitments through its updated framework.
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OpenAI, in an agreement with the US AI Safety Institute
Exact words
"access to major new models from each company prior to and following their public release"
Source U.S. AI Safety Institute signs agreements regarding AI safety research, testing and evaluation with Anthropic and OpenAI NIST ·
Kept: reported by NIST, which published a joint US and UK pre-deployment test of o1.
US AISI and UK AISI Joint Pre-Deployment Test: OpenAI o1 NIST ·
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OpenAI, a signatory of the Seoul commitments
Exact words
"publishing a safety framework focused on severe risks by the upcoming AI Summit in France"
Source Frontier AI Safety Commitments, AI Seoul Summit 2024 UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ·
Kept: reported by METR, whose index lists the Preparedness Framework from December 2023.
Frontier AI Safety Policies (index of published company frameworks) METR ·
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OpenAI, one of seven companies at the White House
Exact words
"internal and external security testing of their AI systems before their release"
Source Fact sheet: Biden-Harris Administration secures voluntary commitments from leading artificial intelligence companies to manage the risks posed by AI The White House (archived) ·
Kept: reported by the UK AI Security Institute, which tested GPT-6 Astra before its public release.
GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations UK AI Security Institute ·
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OpenAI, in a post by Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever
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"dedicating 20% of the compute we've secured to date over the next four years"
Source Introducing Superalignment OpenAI ·
Not met: reported by Fortune on May 21, 2024: "OpenAI never fulfilled its commitment to provide the team with 20% of its computing power."
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OpenAI, in its Charter
Exact words
"we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project"
Source OpenAI Charter OpenAI ·
No public evidence yet. The clause is still on the Charter page; no public report says it has been invoked.
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The Containment Board
Rank 2 of 11 on five safety commitments, every grade sourced. The board grades what is in place today; this page follows what was promised.
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"OpenAI safety promises." The Promise Tracker, enterrsi.si, checked November 10, 2026. 7 promises. https://enterrsi.si/promises/openai/
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