Chris Lehane on AI labs should conduct risk assessments…

Chris Lehane

OpenAI chief global affairs officer

We have strengthened monitoring, alignment, and security safeguards across the model-development lifecycle, including stronger isolation for frontier research workloads, expanded monitoring of model behavior during tool-enabled training and evaluations, and clearer rules for when to escalate concerns. For Astra, we also introduced universal monitoring of full trajectories, including chains of thought, and a mandatory alignment-evaluation gate before broader internal deployment. [...] OpenAI is developing a framework for reporting consequential misalignment incidents and systematically monitoring frontier-model activity, including internal use.

AI Verified (Sep 9, 2026)

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Chris Lehane, “The AI policy window is open. We need to act.” OpenAI, September 9, 2026, lines 51 and 90. Lehane, OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, describes mandatory alignment evaluation before broader internal deployment and monitoring of frontier-model activity, including internal use.

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AI labs should conduct risk assessments before high-stakes internal deployment of frontier models

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AI Verified The quote identifies OpenAI’s frontier model Astra and its mandatory alignment-evaluation gate before broader internal deployment; this supports pre-deployment risk assessment for high-stakes internal frontier use. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.2 · 20d ago

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AI Verified For: Lehane describes a mandatory alignment-evaluation gate before broader internal deployment of Astra. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.2 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Official OpenAI article, dated 9 Sep 2026 and by Chris Lehane, contains the stored wording at lines 51 and 90. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.2 · 20d ago

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