Watchtower
Watchtower tracks when AI companies change their safety policies — and when they break them.
Changed their usage policies to remove a ban on using OpenAI products for "military and warfare."
OpenAI
Jan 10, 2024
Changed their usage policies to remove a ban on using OpenAI products for "military and warfare." The likely proximate cause for this, from public information, was working with the Pentagon on cybersecurity and veteran suicide. However, it's not clear if there were other (less PR-friendly) motivations for collaboration with militaries, now or in the future.
This change coincided with protests.
Meta
Oct 2, 2026
Meta updates and renames its safety framework from the "Advanced AI Scaling Framework" (v2) to the "Meta Superintelligence Scaling Framework" (v2.1).
Anthropic
Sep 22, 2026
Anthropic’s release of Opus 5.5 with an “inconclusive” determination for harmful-manipulation.
xAI
Sep 21, 2026
xAI says Grok 4.7 scores below its safety framework’s capability thresholds on dual-use knowledge, but xAI’s safety framework doesn’t provide thresholds.
OpenAI
Sep 9, 2026
Updated the GPT-6 Astra system card, specifically to hedge claims about misalignment.
OpenAI
Aug 18, 2026
OpenAI updated its Model Spec, the document outlining intended model behavior
xAI
Aug 17, 2026
xAI updated Grok 4.6's model card after release. A changelog was included.
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