Last week, OpenAI fired three safety researchers because they allegedly mishandled confidential information and shared it outside of the company’s approved channels.
Now, the fired employees have published an open letter denying OpenAI’s claims — and warning that the company’s actions are scaring workers into staying silent.
“We have become concerned that internal and external communications around our firing have made our former colleagues afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at OpenAI,” the sacked employees — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni — wrote in the letter.
The trio also denied being the source of the leak when The Information reported about OpenAI’s latest models being built with “opaque recurrence” architectures that make it hard for humans to monitor their underlying reasoning.
