Ex-OpenAI staff say they were fired for raising safety concerns

Three former OpenAI employees say they have been fired due to their efforts to ensure the safety of artificial intelligence.Safety researchers Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak and Jasmine Wang levelled the accusations on Thursday after their dismissals last week. The trio warned of a “chilling” effect on other staff concerned about the frontier technology’s risks.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4ICE shooting of New York man in car with five-year-old sparks protestslist 2 of 4Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein faces police probe as protest tensions festerlist 3 of 4Uproar in NY after ICE shoots man with child in the carlist 4 of 4Mexico prison clash in strife-torn Sinaloa state leaves 10 deadend of listOpenAI said they were let go due to misconduct involving the mishandling of company information.“I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation,” Balesni said in a post on X.Korbak expressed a similar sentiment, expressing his belief that he had been terminated for raising concerns that OpenAI was “losing the ability to monitor what AI agents think, one of our best tools for catching when they misbehave”.In an open letter pub...