Watchtower
Watchtower tracks when AI companies change their safety policies — and when they break them.
Removed author from GPT-4o system card.
OpenAI
Aug 30, 2024
Update 10/24/24: An OpenAI employee on Twitter reports that this change was made at the request of the removed author. No reasons were given for the removal, nor the original inclusion.
Between August 27 and August 30, OpenAI quietly edited the GPT-4o system card they published earlier in the year to remove the name of a safety researcher, Todor Markov, who resigned from the company in protest of their restrictive NDAs.
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.
Aug 14, 2026
Google updated its Gemini 3.7 Flash model card after publication, making changes to language in the “Key Results for Gemini 3.7 Flash” column in the Frontier Safety Assessment section
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