OpenAI Has Declared ‘Code Red’ Multiple Times, Executive Says

(Bloomberg) — Sam Altman’s decision to declare a “code red” at OpenAI earlier this month may have caught the industry’s attention, but it wasn’t a first for the artificial intelligence company.

The San Francisco-based startup’s leadership has made the same declaration previously, explicitly instructing employees to drop lower-priority tasks and concentrate on a single goal, said OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen. “We do this when we want to have this focusing effort on one particular topic,” Chen said in an interview.