buildConfirmed17 publishers OpenAI says it fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information, citing a further breach of trust it has not described. For staff working with outside evaluators, the sharing line stays unsettled until OpenAI publishes the assessor contracts it says are coming.
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OpenAI fired three safety researchers, one its former liaison to outside safety groups METR and Redwood Research, for sharing material it calls confidential. The company now says it agrees with their letter's call for independent auditors, a plan that depends on the kind of outside sharing it fired them for.
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OpenAI said on October 1 it had fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information shared with an outside AI safety group. The dismissals add to a run of agent incidents and a withheld model, and they raise a governance question for its backers.
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OpenAI parted ways with three researchers it says mishandled sensitive information, reportedly by sharing it with an outside AI-safety group. Last month OpenAI backed deep-access outside safety reviews, so its staff need to know where the approved channel to outsiders ends.
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Asked on a Dallas tarmac whether AI could end humanity, the president said he had no concerns and put the US a year ahead of China, while three separate catastrophic-risk bills sit in the congressional record.
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Anthropic's alignment science lead backs the resignation post that hit 171 million views
A researcher quit Anthropic. Colleagues who still work there said publicly that he was right. In the same account, OpenAI says its research organization logged 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday.
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Anthropic's alignment lead prices human extinction above one in ten
Seven named researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic want the frontier slowed, one of them quit to say so, and the only actions anyone can point to are that departure and a board seat for a former US safety official.
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