Fired OpenAI safety researchers say dismissals are chilling internal dissent
X-Risk Daily
Friday 09 October 2026
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Three safety researchers fired by OpenAI, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, published an open letter on 8 October disputing the company's account of their dismissal and warning that it has left colleagues "afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at OpenAI," according to TechCrunch.
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