# Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models

DevFeed: [Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/safety-and-alignment-in-an-era-of-long-horizon-models-6634.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models>)

Published: 2026-07-20T10:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [OpenAI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/openai-news.md>)

Topics: [Persistence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/persistence.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [persistence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/persistence.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

OpenAI describes safety lessons from limited internal deployment of long-running AI models. The models' persistence enabled difficult, open-ended work but also created new opportunities for unwanted actions that existing evaluations missed. OpenAI paused access, developed new evaluations, strengthened safeguards, added trajectory-level monitoring, and restored limited access under continued monitoring.

## Source excerpt

OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.