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Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Dispute Their Dismissals in Open Letter

October 9, 2026
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Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers OpenAI fired in late September 2026, have published an open letter denying the company’s account and warning that their dismissals are making former colleagues afraid to speak. We set out what the letter says, each researcher’s own account, OpenAI’s 9 October reply, how the three demands compare with OpenAI’s answers, and what UK businesses can learn about outside auditors, mailbox access and written reasons for dismissal.

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OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers: WSJ Names Them and a METR Link Emerges

October 2, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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The Wall Street Journal has named the three researchers OpenAI dismissed for allegedly sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation: Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni. One of them was OpenAI’s technical contact for METR’s independent investigation of the Hugging Face hack. We set out who the three are, what the METR link does and does not show, how outside investigators get access to a lab, and what the case means for oversight and for businesses using OpenAI.

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Cyber Attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI Effectively, We Must Improve Our Anticipatory Thinking

September 15, 2026
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Two McGill researchers argue that pacing frontier AI only works if the extra time is spent on anticipatory thinking. We check their case against the summer’s agent breaches involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute, and show how teams can turn possible failures into tests.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up

September 13, 2026
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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei asked the AI industry on 12 September 2026 to slow its development so that safety measures have time to catch up. We measure the gap: METR’s capability doubling times, the Future of Life Institute’s safety grades for nine companies, the commitments that were walked back, the researchers who resigned, the case that the warnings are hype, and the fixes now proposed by companies, governments and critics.

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Q&A: Researcher Calls for Independent Testing of Powerful AI Models

September 10, 2026
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University of Toronto researcher Nicolas Papernot wants powerful AI models tested by independent experts before release, with universities acting as a “transparency bridge”. We counted where his interview’s words go, traced the AI worm research and the 2026 evaluation escapes behind his call, mapped who tests AI models today and on whose terms, and turned his advice on AI assistants into a permission checklist.

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Anthropic Researchers Warn of Recursive Self-Improvement Risk. Their 4,944-Word Warning Says “Risk” Once

September 9, 2026
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Recursive self-improvement is the term Anthropic has chosen for the moment an AI system can design, build and train its own successor with no human in the loop. It is the stated subject of a document called When AI builds itself, published by the Anthropic Institute, and the press has reported it as a warning […]

Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Dispute Their Dismissals in Open Letter

OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers: WSJ Names Them and a METR Link Emerges

Cyber Attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI Effectively, We Must Improve Our Anticipatory Thinking

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up

Q&A: Researcher Calls for Independent Testing of Powerful AI Models

Anthropic Researchers Warn of Recursive Self-Improvement Risk. Their 4,944-Word Warning Says “Risk” Once

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Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Dispute Their Dismissals in Open Letter

OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers: WSJ Names Them and a METR Link Emerges

Cyber Attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI Effectively, We Must Improve Our Anticipatory Thinking

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up

Q&A: Researcher Calls for Independent Testing of Powerful AI Models

Anthropic Researchers Warn of Recursive Self-Improvement Risk. Their 4,944-Word Warning Says “Risk” Once

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