{"type":"post","id":"openai-updates-its-model-spec-around-five-core-db29dc","slug":"openai-updates-its-model-spec-around-five-core-db29dc","title":"OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec Around Five Core Values (7 minute read)","description":"OpenAI has updated its public Model Spec, organizing expected model behavior around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care.","retrieval_nugget":"OpenAI has updated its public Model Spec, organizing expected model behavior around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. For teams building with AI, the change matters as a public statement of the behavioral trade-offs OpenAI says should guide more capable systems.","published_at":"2026-10-30","updated_at":"2026-10-30","record_date":"2026-10-30","date_kind":"published_at","topics":[],"entities":["OpenAI","Model Spec"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"OpenAI’s Model Spec update is newly described as organized around five core values: faithfulness, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care.","prior_refs":["memory:937b5d78-0692-8ad6-a7b3-59a9bb79e02a"],"source_url":"https://openai.com/index/updated-model-spec","source_urls":["https://openai.com/index/updated-model-spec"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:openai-updates-its-model-spec-around-five-core-db29dc","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/openai-updates-its-model-spec-around-five-core-db29dc/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/openai-updates-its-model-spec-around-five-core-db29dc.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/openai-updates-its-model-spec-around-five-core-db29dc.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}