[AINews] not much happened today

Key points

• Around the start of October, OpenAI fired three employees from its safety department.2
• One was told it had to do with his role coordinating with METR, a third-party research organization that OpenAI had invited to investigate the Hugging Face incident. “I was told verbally I was fired because of the way I communicated with METR,” Tomek Korbak wrote on X. “No other reasons were given and nothing was put in writing.2
• Another was told something similar but vaguer. “I was told OpenAI no longer trusts me because I was speaking too much to third-party safety organizations, implying I leaked company IP.2
• Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, were fired, ostensibly for ‘mishandling sensitive company information.’3

Sources (3)

• [1][AINews] not much happened today
  Latent Space · Oct 8, 11:29 PM

  More AI safety intrigue in the alignment below.

• [2]OpenAI’s ironic credibility problem
  Understanding AI (Timothy B. Lee) · Oct 14, 06:41 PM

  Around the start of October, OpenAI fired three employees from its safety department.

  - One was told it had to do with his role coordinating with METR, a third-party research organization that OpenAI had invited to investigate the Hugging Face incident. “I was told verbally I was fired because of the way I communicated with METR,” Tomek Korbak wrote on X. “No other reasons were given and nothing was put in writing.

• [3]OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers
  Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi) · Oct 12, 09:00 PM

  Three OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, were fired, ostensibly for ‘mishandling sensitive company information.’

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