Fired OpenAI employees question the company's commitment to safety
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He said he worried that OpenAI will use the firings as an excuse to cut off its relationship with Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), a nonprofit that focuses on evaluating risks of humans losing control of AI. OpenAI allowed researchers from METR and Redwood Research, another AI safety research organization, to examine internal records related to the Hugging Face hack.

A second fired OpenAI employee, Korbak, was the technical point of contact for the METR/Redwood Research investigation. "I was told verbally I was fired because of the way I communicated with METR. No details on what I said or did or when. No other reasons were given and nothing was put in writing," Korbak wrote on X , echoing Balesni's concerns.

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