Mikita Balesni on X: "Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership.
I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation."
Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership.
I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership.
I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
We were not given written reasons for our firing. In the exit call, I was told OpenAI no longer trusts me because I was speaking too much to third party safety organizations, implying I leaked company IP. I never shared company IP. The work I was doing was coordinated with my
I worry that OpenAI is going to use our firing as an excuse to cut off the relationship with @METR_Evals, or otherwise not give the most competent safety auditors continuous employee-level access that @sama promised.
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
The three of us were pushing internally for industry-wide commitments to preserve our ability to monitor AI reasoning. This work requires talking daily to third parties. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11473
My former colleagues are telling me they are confused about what to believe. They also are afraid to speak, and worry their personal phones will be searched for messages to us and third parties. I worry the pervading fear to speak up and engage with third parties will mean OpenAI
I tried to quote you, but I got put on X timeout atm for too many rapid likes and replies. ADHD discrimination as usual. When this reply shows up I will try again.