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