30 October 2026

OpenAI revises its model guidelines for autonomy and animal welfare

First reported

Latent Space ran this on 30 October.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has updated its Model Spec, the document that sets out how its AI models are supposed to behave.
The revision aims to let the models carry out more tasks on their own, with less step-by-step direction from a person.
It also adds explicit guidance on animal welfare, spelling out how the models should handle questions and requests involving animals.

Our read

Only Latent Space, of the 30 newsletters tracked, covered this Model Spec revision. It follows our October 18 story on OpenAI and Anthropic discussing AI agent autonomy.

Earlier on this story

Oct 18OpenAI and Anthropic discuss AI agent autonomy; OpenAI fires three safety staff

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Autonomy guidance and animal-welfare guidance