Jasmine Wang

Fired OpenAI researcher · Former safety researcher, OpenAI

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“The message to everyone still at OpenAI is clear: raise concerns or work closely with outside safety groups, and you could be next, without being told why. You can’t build AGI safely if the people closest to the risks are afraid to speak.”
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effectTechCrunch, October 8, 2026. Wang, quoted by TechCrunch, on what the firings signal to staff still at OpenAI.
“When I opened a sensitive email by mistake, I told the executive within minutes and asked IT again. None of this was hidden.”
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effectTechCrunch, October 8, 2026. Wang on X, answering OpenAI's stated reason: access to an executive's email that, Wang says, OpenAI had delegated for recruiting.
“Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAI has prized in the past.”
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effectTechCrunch, October 8, 2026. From the joint open letter by Wang, Korbak and Balesni to OpenAI's safety and advisory bodies; all three signed it.
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Where they stand

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People inside AI companies should be free to warn the public

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  1. Agrees: “The message to everyone still at OpenAI is clear: raise concerns or work closely with outside safety groups, and you could be next, without being told why. Y…”
  2. Agrees: “Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAI has prized in the past.”

In the Base

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  1. NewsTransformerMentioned

    Democrats prepare to battle over AI regulation

    Transformer's briefing leads with Shakeel Hashim's analysis that Democrats, who Transformer says look increasingly likely to win both chambers, are floating rival AI bills: a standards agency with an emergency shutdown switch, constant oversight of frontier models, liability, a jobs programme, a superintelligence ban. It also reports OpenAI firing three safety researchers and a House chair backing a kill switch.

  2. NewsTechCrunchSpeaks

    Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

    TechCrunch reports that Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, three safety researchers OpenAI fired, deny in an open letter that they mishandled sensitive information and warn the firings chill safety work. OpenAI cites a pattern of misconduct and denies retaliation. Wang says OpenAI pointed to an executive's inbox that Wang had been given access to for recruiting.