OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Information Leaks
TL;DR
- OpenAI said it parted ways with three employees after concluding they mishandled sensitive company information outside established procedures.
- Sources told the Wall Street Journal the researchers had shared confidential material with an outside AI-safety organization.
- OpenAI has not publicly named the three researchers or the outside group that allegedly received the information.
OpenAI said it has parted ways with three safety researchers for allegedly sharing confidential company information with an outside AI-safety organization, according to the Wall Street Journal.
"We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," an OpenAI spokesperson told the paper, adding that an internal investigation confirmed the employees "mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work."
The company did not name the researchers. People familiar with the matter told the Journal the three had "shared it with an AI safety organization"; the outside group has not been identified in the reporting.
The firings land inside a long run of OpenAI stories we have tracked this quarter, and arrive while the broader safety community argues over how much of a frontier lab's internal record its staff can take to outsiders. One sourcing: the Journal, with OpenAI on the record and the researchers and the receiving organization unnamed.
Originally reported by wsj.com
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