TREE NEWS update: Three OpenAI safety researchers — Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak and Jasmine Wang — said they were fired by the company last week and have sent an open letter to its leadership claiming they were dismissed for putting safety ahead of OpenAI’s short-term commercial interests. The three deny leaking company secrets and call on OpenAI to honor its commitment to third-party safety audits and keep frontier models monitorable. OpenAI said an internal investigation found they handled sensitive information outside established processes.
Three Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Say They Were Let Go Over Safety
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The dispute turns on process: OpenAI frames the firings around how sensitive information was handled, while the researchers frame them around safety advocacy, and the two accounts are not directly reconcilable from the outside. What matters is the precedent this sets for how internal safety dissent is treated at a lab that has publicly committed to third-party audits and monitorable frontier models. Whether OpenAI's stated commitment to those audits survives a staffing shakeup like this is the open question.
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