OpenAI’s safety firings raise awkward questions
Source: Fortune ·
The firings show that, for now, AI labs alone decide what the public learns about their safety incidents.
From the source
Good morning, senior AI reporter Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for Allie. Last week, OpenAI announced it had alerted more than 100 third-party organizations of “misaligned agent activity,” including one in which its agents targeted the Australian government—for the second time. That same week, OpenAI also fired three researchers for allegedly sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI-safety organization. They were Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni; according to the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI told the WSJ they had been fired for “violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information.” The company did not respond to our request for comment. It’s not known yet exactly what information was shared or who they shared it with, though Bloomberg reported that at least some of the information at the center of the investigation related to the architecture of OpenAI’s infrastructure. OpenAI also hasn’t named the outside organization,…