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What is OpenAI Frontier Governance Framework?

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As of
2026-07-23
Revision
2026-07-26.0
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 2026-07-23, 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

pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)

Dataset
2026-07-26.0
Hash
sha256:e2eb667df093db8819d579dff9aad51021b4977da85db2dfa82f63f9ed4e72b7
Approved
2026-07-26

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