OpenAI posted a senior role — a $555,000‑a‑year "head of preparedness" — to oversee mitigation of AI harms including cybersecurity and biological‑safety concerns, a move CEO Sam Altman framed as urgent. The hire follows a period of high‑profile departures and public scrutiny over safety at major model developers. In parallel, academic teams reported that ChatGPT’s responses can be shifted by "mindfulness‑style" prompt interventions that reduce biased or emotionally charged outputs in experimental settings. For campus leaders, these developments underscore two operational priorities: building institutional AI governance and investing in evidence‑based moderation and ethics training for faculty and students who deploy large language models in teaching and research.