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   OpenAI defends firing three safety researchers amid oversight dispute

   OpenAI dismissed safety researchers Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang in early October and on Oct. 9 defended the decision, saying an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive information outside company procedures and broke its trust; the company denied the firings were about raising safety concerns or speaking out. In an open letter, the three disputed that account: Korbak said he was told verbally he was fired over how he communicated with the independent evaluator METR, Balesni said he was suspected of leaking company IP because he spoke with third-party safety organizations (which he denies), and Wang said her dismissal involved access to an executive's email. An Understanding AI commentary ties the episode to OpenAI's system card statement that GPT-6 Astra "shows a substantial decrease in chain-of-thought monitorability compared to previous models," and describes Astra as using a recurrent depth architecture that makes outside monitoring of its reasoning harder.

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