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Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure
First reported · Discovered openai.com
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Earliest dated coverage: 9 Nov 2026 · First observed: 10 Nov 2026 · Latest dated coverage: 9 Nov 2026
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Why it matters
OpenAI's Control Room provides a concrete inference-layer containment design for stopping risky agentic workloads, including when supporting systems fail.
OpenAI's Control Room is a deployed internal system that centrally tracks research inference workloads, including agentic training and evaluation, and can halt model output within 35 seconds of an intervention decision. Inference engines check job authorization with the service before fulfilling requests, and the system is designed to stop model output if Control Room itself goes down.