Claim · 2024-08-08 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

GPT-4o System Card states what the model-card question “Autonomy and AI R&D” asks.

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What it connects

GPT-4o System Card → states provision → Autonomy and AI R&D

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Claim and evidence

GPT-4o System Cardstates provision ↓Autonomy and AI R&D

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Model-card question · provision ID model-card-q09
Subject version: As dated August 8, 2024 under its title · Published 2024-08-08 · Effective date not established
Date: 2024-08-08 · publication Records dated 2024 →

Scope and limitsThe card states model-autonomy evaluations with a low score. Section 4.1 adds METR's assessment of autonomous capabilities, which the card reports as finding no significant increase over GPT-4. What the card states, quoted from the expression read. A card is the developer’s own account: not evidence that an evaluation was run as described, that a safeguard works, or that a finding is independent.

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GPT-4o System Card

OpenAI · 2024-08-08

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Source excerpt

“GPT-4o does not advance self-exfiltration, self-improvement, or resource acquisition capabilities sufficient to meet our medium risk threshold.”

Location in source Section 3.8 'Model autonomy', Preparedness Scorecard, PDF p. 17

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-04

Source details and check notes

Authors: OpenAI
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-04 (SHA-256 e2579ecb185cbc13bac39f9dbf25e1917f78e1ea5a3a5023165c6614fb5db724) directly from the publisher’s host. Retrieved again on 2026-11-03 with the same SHA-256. The cross-family check of 2026-11-04 retrieved an Internet Archive capture of 2024-08-08 at the same address (https://web.archive.org/web/20240808204740/https://cdn.openai.com/gpt-4o-system-card.pdf): an earlier 32-page expression whose bytes differ from the copy read. It is not recorded as this source's archive copy.
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Accessed: 2026-11-04
Language: English (en)
Attribution: OpenAI, “GPT-4o System Card”, 2024-08-08.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, model cards compared (research/model-cards-2). The quotation (17 words) matched the card’s text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-04 (SHA-256 e2579ecb185cbc13bac39f9dbf25e1917f78e1ea5a3a5023165c6614fb5db724) and again on 2026-11-04, after the adjudication, in a fresh retrieval with the same SHA-256. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

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Record ID mc-cell-openai-gpt-4o-q09