CNN: Korback said he believes he was fired because “for months, I’d been raising safety concerns that we’re losing the ability to monitor what AI agents think, one of our best tools for catching when they misbehave.” He added he’s worried his firing will be used as a pretext for OpenAI to stop working as closely with METR, which is well respected in the AI safety world.
Balesni echoed Korbak’s theories for why they were fired, writing on X that he was told he was “speaking too much to third party safety organizations.” He said he understood OpenAI was implying he leaked OpenAI intellectual property, which he denies…