OpenAI Safety Standards

This document sets out OpenAI's commitments to keeping its AI systems safe and responsible — including filtering harmful content, protecting private information, and enforcing child safety protections. OpenAI publishes system cards to help users understand how its models work and works with outside experts and governments to improve its safeguards over time. Users can expect OpenAI to actively work toward greater transparency about AI-generated content.

This document establishes OpenAI's stated safety and responsible AI standards, encompassing content controls, bias evaluation, privacy protections, and transparency mechanisms. OpenAI commits to filtering harmful content and incorporating human values into AI policy training as foundational elements of model development prior to deployment. The document establishes transparency obligations through the publication of system cards and ongoing improvements to AI-generated content disclosure. OpenAI frames its safeguard development as a continuous, iterative process combining internal evaluations and external expert testing, and situates its harm-reduction efforts within coordinated relationships with governments, industry leaders, and policymakers.

For individual users, this document means OpenAI maintains protections for private information, enforces child safety standards, and actively filters harmful content as part of how its AI systems are trained — not just as an after-the-fact filter. OpenAI publishes system cards, giving users a stated channel to access transparency information about its models. Users also have a basis to expect that OpenAI continues to improve disclosure around AI-generated content over time.