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OpenAI releases GPT-5 with expanded safeguards

OpenAI released GPT-5 across ChatGPT and the API with stronger reasoning, coding and tool use, plus safe-completion training and additional biological-risk controls.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM68confidence 95/100

Why it moved the index

A broadly deployed frontier release materially advanced reasoning, coding and tool use; its new safeguards reduce but do not outweigh the capability and deployment increase.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 68 · confidence 95

    New August 2025 launch story linked to the exact durable GPT-5 profile; no duplicate story exists.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “OpenAI releases GPT-5 with expanded safeguards” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 68 and confidence 95 out of 100 in the capability gains category.

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