Tomek Korbak
Fired OpenAI researcher · Former safety researcher, OpenAI
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- Safety researcher, OpenAIformer · source
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“I was told verbally I was fired because of the way I communicated with METR. No details on what I said or did or when. No other reasons were given and nothing was put in writing. To be clear, talking to METR was my job.”
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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.
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.
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.