OpenAI fires safety researchers amid AI trust crisis

openai fired three safety researchers, tomek korbak, jasmine wang, and mikita balesni, some of whom were involved in investigating the hugging face hack. korbak had internally warned for months that openai was losing the ability to monitor its ai agents. the abrupt terminations have created fear among remaining employees, with the researchers warning in an open letter that the firings are making it difficult for employees to understand what is expected of them. this incident is the latest in a series of safety crises for openai, including the departure of head of super ai safety jan leike to anthropic.