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- OpenAI says it parted ways with three researchers over sensitive-information policy violations, not safety concerns
In a note from its research leaders posted by OpenAI Newsroom on X, responding to the open letter from the three fired researchers, OpenAI says it parted ways last week with Jasmine, Mikita and Tomek after an investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information, and that it stands by the decision not to continue their employment. It says the decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out, and that it has not terminated employees for raising concerns. OpenAI says it is finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks. It agrees with the researchers' letter that preserving the monitorability of frontier models requires an industry-wide commitment, citing its Monitoring Monitorability publications, open-sourced monitorability evals and the GPT-6 Astra system card.
- Fired OpenAI safety researchers publish open letter: OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own
Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni, who say they are the three safety and alignment employees fired from OpenAI last week, published an open letter addressed to OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group and Mission Advisory Council. They say the firings are chilling the open culture OpenAI has prized, and that they acted in line with OpenAI's mission and within the working norms of the time. They say they were not the source of the leak to The Information, and give their own accounts of the Hugging Face incident investigation, Mikita's cross-company monitorability work and Jasmine's delegated access to an executive's email. They urge OpenAI to follow through on commitments to embed third-party safety auditors, to preserve the monitorability of frontier models, and to publicly reaffirm an open culture for raising safety concerns internally and externally.
Statement by Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita BalesniPublished newsSource: Open letter (Balesni, Korbak, Wang)Part of OpenAI