OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code

OpenAI has outlined how it aligns safety, security, and transparency work with the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code as enforcement approaches.

The company has contributed to and endorsed the EU’s General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice and the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. Both emerged from multi-stakeholder processes.

The GPAI Code sets a shared bar for transparency, safety, and security across general-purpose models sold or deployed in the EU. OpenAI points to a stack of existing practices as evidence it already operates near that bar: pre-release testing of models, published system cards accompanying major launches, and outside red-teaming through what it calls its Red Teaming Network. The company also maintains a public Model Spec document describing how it shapes model behaviour.

Two internal frameworks sit underneath that wor...