OpenAI Publishes o1 Safety Research
Narrative
Chain-of-thought reasoning enables better alignment. Models can deliberate on safety. New "deliberative alignment" paradigm reduces jailbreak success.
Reality
Safety improvements documented across benchmarks. However, DeepSeek R1 release same month showed reasoning available without deliberative alignment safety layer. Raised questions about safety moat.
Implication
Introduced deliberative alignment concept. But rapid open-source reasoning development complicated safety narrative. No clear path to prevent reasoning capability proliferation.