Watchdogs: OpenAI violated California's SI safety law three times by not assessing loss-of-control risk
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The first SI laws are starting to be actually enforced: labs are required to prove a model will not slip out of control, and oversight is becoming a mandatory part of releasing models.
The Midas Project claims that under OpenAI's own framework, which is mandatory under the SB 53 law, every model must receive a "loss of control" risk level, but the system cards for GPT-5.6 preview, GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 Astra do not contain it: the company used its old Preparedness Framework, which has no such category. OpenAI says it is "confident" it complies with the law. The penalty is up to $1 million per violation.
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