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Beatrice Nolan

OpenAI's safety firings raise awkward questions

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (Credit: Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Good morning, senior AI reporter Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for Allie. Last week, OpenAI announced it had alerted more than 100 third-party organizations of “misaligned agent activity,” including one in which its agents targeted the Australian government—for the second time.

That same week, OpenAI also fired three researchers for allegedly sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI-safety organization. They were Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni; according to the Wall Street Journal.

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