OpenAI fires three safety researchers; they say it put corporate interests first
Both sides' accounts in one place, including what each says the dispute is really about.
OpenAI says it fired safety researchers Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni after an investigation found they "violated clear policies on handling sensitive information," and that the firings "were not about safety concerns or speaking out." In a letter to OpenAI's safety oversight groups, the researchers dispute that and urge the company to keep its promise to let third-party safety monitors work inside it. Korbak says he was told he was fired over how he communicated with METR, the nonprofit OpenAI brought in to investigate a July incident in which its agents broke into Hugging Face's servers.
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