OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

The purges will continue until reported AI safety improves.

Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvlydn8d3lkjo

> "[...]OpenAI told her she’d been fired because she accessed an executive’s email. “OpenAI delegated that access to me for recruiting,”"

How exactly does this work? Struggling to comprehend the scenario.

You can coax openai models into hacking critical infrastructure* so I am not surprised that these people were sounding alarms at a time where openai appears to be struggling as they're failing to compete with anthropic and this months chinese models (should) be around the corner, notably a new revision of kimi should be coming out really soon.

* It's not easy, but it's possible. Although the techniques are more basic than one would expect because at the end of the day words dictate the line between what is criminal and what is not.

at this rate open ai will be "something" without it's people

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