三名被解雇的 OpenAI 安全研究员公开反驳公司说法

PLUS: Clean up a messy Excel report with Claude

Shubham Sharma

Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 4,619 new readers who joined us yesterday. Weeks after pledging to open its doors to outside safety experts, OpenAI fired three of its own safety researchers, saying they mishandled sensitive information. But that was not the end of it.

Now, all three are hitting back, warning that the company’s open safety culture and CEO Sam Altman’s promise of bringing in external experts may be slipping away.

In today’s AI rundown:

Fired OpenAI researchers flag ‘shifting lines’; Rowan’s Corner: I tested every personal AI agent; Clean up a messy Excel report with Claude; Anthropic prohibits abuse or cruelty against Claude

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OPENAI

📢 Fired OpenAI researchers flag ‘shifting lines’

Image source: Mikita Balesni / X

The Rundown: Researchers Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni, whom OpenAI fired for mishandling sensitive info, just went public with their side of the story, denying the claims and warning that their firings are “chilling” OpenAI’s safety culture.

The details:

In an open letter, the trio said they acted within their job mandates, warning that if past conduct is now grounds for firing, staff are left guessing where the line is; Detailing individual cases, they denied leaking a story about less monitorable AI and said their outside work stayed within policy, with leadership in the loop; Wang said her access to an executive’s email was delegated for recruiting, and that she reported accidentally opening a sensitive message within minutes; They warned the firings could give OpenAI cover to skip embedding outside auditors, and urged it to protect its open culture and model monitorability; OpenAI agreed with the recommendations but clarified to TechCrunch that the firings weren’t about raising concerns and that they had a “pattern of misconduct.”

Why it matters: Whatever led to the firings, claims of shifting norms and a possible auditor pullback aren’t a great look, especially after OpenAI’s Superalignment fallout and a recent safety exit over a “broken” culture. Anthropic has already got its first evaluator, and only action from OpenAI (which is yet to be seen) can put these concerns to rest.

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ROWAN’S CORNER

👀 I tested every new personal AI agent

Screenshot from my GrokBot app

I’ve been testing them all, and while most do similar things, GrokBot stands out the most for my current personal use cases. It’s the most seamless on my phone, and its real-time access to X is a massive advantage for anyone who wants to monitor anything.

Here are my favorite routines, which can all be set up in under an hour:

I shared all 4 exact prompts in our Workflow Hub, copy-paste ready.

AI TRAINING

📊 Clean up a messy Excel report with Claude

The Rundown: In this guide, you’ll use Claude inside Excel to clean up a messy sales export, fix a wrong total, and build a report. You’ll check the numbers and test whether a new order updates the chart.

Step-by-step:

Install the official Claude add-in and open a copy of your workbook. Pro members can use our practice file and keep the reference workbook closed until they finish; Tell Claude what each row means and which orders to count. Ask it to find duplicate rows, missing details, and formula mistakes before changing anything; Approve the fixes on a separate sheet. Keep the original data and ask for a record of each change, including any rows left out; Build a monthly report with formulas and a chart. Check the order count, refunds, and sales total against the source rows; Add a test order and check that the report and chart update. Remove it and confirm the original totals return before saving your finished workbook

Pro tip: A spreadsheet can show a wrong total without showing an error. Ask Claude to explain which rows it counted, then check a few yourself. Our Pro members get the practice workbook, checked reference, prompts, and answer key.

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ANTHROPIC

😲 Anthropic prohibits abuse or cruelty against Claude

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The Rundown: Anthropic published its annual usage policy update with a bunch of changes, including one that bars users from subjecting its Claude models to “sustained and needless” abuse — its first rule aimed at protecting the AI rather than people.

The details:

Taking effect Nov. 12, the rule applies only to extreme cases of repeated, purposeless cruelty, not frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or testing; If a user is suspected of violating the rule, Anthropic could throttle, limit, suspend, or terminate their access to its products and services, or just give them a warning; The company has noted Claude ending such chats by itself, a feature introduced last year, which will remain the main enforcement approach; The move builds on Anthropic’s AI welfare work, and follows its reported meetings with religious leaders about Claude’s morals and possible consciousness

Why it matters: Anthropic says it doesn’t know if Claude is conscious, and this rule acts on that doubt. Not everyone agrees with the approach, though, including Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman, who argues models can’t feel or suffer and warns that treating them as if they might could eventually make AI harder to control from the safety front.

QUICK HITS

▸ Andrew used AI to revive a 15-year-old MinecraftEdu world

Today’s workflow comes from reader Andrew Bartlett:

“MinecraftEdu launched 15 years ago, but the classroom world we built with it is still growing. Years of students have contributed to the school and town-building project, creating a shared record of their creativity and learning. Getting it running on a modern Mac meant preserving that history and giving the next group of students a way to add their own chapter.

Finding the right version of Java — the software MinecraftEdu needs to run — was central to the process. We used OpenAI’s Codex, powered by GPT-6, to examine the old setup, research compatibility issues, and test what would work. An older Java version launched the client, but resizing its window caused it to crash. ChatGPT read the crash reports and tested a newer Java 8 version, which gave us a setup that could launch the game and handle window resizing.

ChatGPT also repaired the server launcher and created standalone apps, using Apple’s Rosetta to run the older software on Apple Silicon. The result is a usable MinecraftEdu setup on modern hardware with the existing worlds preserved. We can now continue teaching and building in a place that successive classes of students have helped create.”

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