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Deep Research System Card

Deep Research System Card (Willison, 2025)

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Metadata

  • Author: Simon Willison
  • Full Title: Deep Research System Card
  • Category: #articles
  • Document Tags: ai
  • Summary: OpenAI is launching its Deep Research tool for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, allowing them to generate detailed reports using various online sources. While the tool produces impressive results, it can still present misinformation and miss important details. There are concerns about its potential to help users create harmful biological threats, prompting OpenAI to invest more in safeguards.
  • URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/deep-research-system-card/#atom-everything

Highlights

  • Several of our biology evaluations indicate our models are on the cusp of being able to meaningfully help novices create known biological threats, which would cross our high risk threshold. We expect current trends of rapidly increasing capability to continue, and for models to cross this threshold in the near future. In preparation, we are intensifying our investments in safeguards. (View Highlight)