Living definition
What is OpenAI Frontier Governance Framework?
AI Safety, Eval & AlignmentSecurity & Identity
- As of
- 2026-09-22
- Revision
- 2026-10-06.1
- Method
- v1.3.0
Definition
The term, in context
AI-assisted draft · approved dataset
The Frontier Governance Framework is OpenAI's published policy for deciding when a frontier model's capabilities call for additional safeguards, defining categories of severe risk, the thresholds within each that trigger action, and the mitigations and internal approvals attached to them. It ties capability evaluation to release decisions, so a model crossing a defined threshold is meant to be held until the corresponding safeguards are in place.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-09-22, verified readiness is 57 (claimed 80, reported 69, gap 23) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Track; not yet.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for OpenAI Frontier Governance Framework.
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
Codex — delegated editorial approver (operator authorization 2026-10-06)
- Dataset
- 2026-10-06.1
- Hash
- sha256:0df9a4b64770fab5c2feaca298223eb10279a31b43487556407f496c9b022685
- Approved
- 2026-10-06