OpenAI announced an external Safety Fellowship on April 6, offering researchers a five-month stipend, compute credits, and mentorship from April 6 for a September–February 2027 cohort focused on safety evaluation, agentic oversight, robustness, and misuse mitigation. Fellows will not receive access to internal systems — positioning the program as sponsored external research rather than embedded employment. The announcement came hours after a New Yorker investigation reported that OpenAI had dissolved its superalignment and AGI-readiness teams and removed "safety" from its IRS filings; the juxtaposition prompted immediate commentary about optics. Applications close May 3.