The 3 safety researchers OpenAI fired just wrote a letter to OpenAI's board. basically saying “don’t make models that have hard-to-monitor reasoning.” but the letter reveals more detail about their firing: > they were allegedly fired for sharing sensitive information with external parties > but Korbak was OpenAI's contact for METR's Hugging Face hack investigation > Balesni was helping the board build an industry pledge on monitoring AI reasoning > both jobs meant constantly talking to outside groups > this was just weeks after Altman supported having outside evaluators > they say they never went beyond their job > and that the firings are “chilling everyone still at OpenAI” OpenAI says it had nothing to do with raising safety concerns.Read original on X
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Fired OpenAI safety researchers send letter to the board
The letter adds new detail about the dismissals and argues against building models whose reasoning is hard to monitor.
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