OpenAI Fires Three Researchers Over Sensitive Information Sharing

The involvement of safety staff in sharing material with an outside evaluator points to a structural tension: the same people tasked with scrutinizing frontier systems are the ones most likely to believe external review is necessary. The detail that infrastructure architecture was among the information at issue matters more than the departures themselves, since it suggests the dispute concerns what third parties may assess, not just internal conduct. Whether external evaluation groups can still obtain meaningful access to frontier developers' systems is the open question.