OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject. There are separate owners for biological risk and for cyber. Nobody appears to have lost a job. What changed is that no single team now holds the whole picture. The timing is th...