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Jasmine Wang

Fired OpenAI researcher · Former safety researcher, OpenAI

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  • Safety researcher, OpenAIformer · source

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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.”
OpenAI Fires Three Safety ResearchersDon't Worry About the Vase (Zvi Mowshowitz), October 12, 2026. Speaking as: Former AI company staff. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Wang's public statement, reproduced by Mowshowitz, on what the firings signal to remaining staff.
“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. Speaking as: Former AI company staff. As quoted by the source, not their own text. 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. Speaking as: Former AI company staff. As quoted by the source, not their own text. 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. Speaking as: Former AI company staff. As quoted by the source, not their own text. 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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In the Base

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  1. EssayAI Alignment Forum (op-ed written for Fortune)About them

    OpenAI Can't Self-Police Because It Fires the People Raising the Alarm

    In an op-ed written for Fortune and posted on the Alignment Forum, Alex Turner, Amber Scorah and Karl Koch argue that voluntary self-policing has failed at OpenAI, citing the firing of three safety researchers. They urge Congress to mandate independent audits and pass whistleblower and incident-reporting bills.

  2. EssayDon't Worry About the Vase (Zvi Mowshowitz)About them

    OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers

    Zvi Mowshowitz collects statements from OpenAI and from three fired safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, who dispute the stated reason. Mowshowitz says the firings look bad, believes the researchers sincerely, and notes OpenAI cites an undisclosed further breach of trust.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.