OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers after leak investigation

According to a WSJ report, OpenAI fired 3 safety researchers after a leak investigation. The report says safety staff discovered disappearing Signal chats between these 3 safety researchers and an outside safety researcher. The phone checks began with a September news report that said OpenAI's latest model Astra uses a new approach that makes it smarter but writes down less of its thought process, so humans can see less of the reasoning. OpenAI treated the report as a leak of its secret model design and began tracing the source of the information; investigators listed Ryan Greenblatt, who had helped METR analyze logs from the July Hugging Face hack, as a suspected leaker, and he denies it. Currently the public information comes only from this report, with no further developments yet.

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1. Oct 23· 1 reports

   OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers after investigating leak

   Source:Rohan Paul