Mikita Balesni
Fired OpenAI researcher · Former safety researcher, OpenAI
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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.
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.