Giving independent evaluators “employee-like access” is “a great idea”, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on September 12th. Two weeks later, OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence which outlined the administration’s answer to growing fears about AI: the companies would police themselves. One of the accord’s four commitments, which President Trump called “morally binding,” was for companies to partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator.
Two days later, OpenAI fired three safety researchers, including Tomek Korbak, who had served as a point of contact for one of the independent evaluators investigating the Hugging Face incident.OpenAI promised to share information with evaluators, then reportedly fired people for allegedly sharing information with evaluators.
