OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers, fourth departs amid AI risk warnings
openai fired three researchers for leaking confidential information, while a fourth safety researcher left shortly after, all of whom had publicly spoken out about ai risks.
openai has fired three researchers, jasmine wang, tomek korbak, and mikita balesni, for violating the company's rules on handling sensitive information. korbak worked on the safety team, while wang and balesni worked on alignment. an openai spokesperson confirmed that an investigation found they had leaked confidential information to an outside ai safety organization. a fourth safety researcher, david robinson, left openai shortly after. all four researchers had publicly expressed concerns about ai risks in september, including korbak's statement that he's unhappy with openai's approach, balesni's estimate that ai could kill all humans with a probability of over 10%, and wang's signature on a petition calling for slower ai development.