OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to AI Watchdog
OpenAI fired three people from its own safety team. On Thursday, the company confirmed it had “parted ways” with three researchers after an internal investigation found they shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, The Wall Street Journal first reported. The departures land at the strangest possible moment. Just nine days earlier, on Sept. 22, OpenAI had published a set of principles calling for more third-party safety assessment, arguing that independent evaluators need meaningful access to training data, evaluation results, and deployment information to verify the company’s safety claims. Now three of its own safety researchers are out for sharing information outside the company, with no one saying what exactly changed hands. ...