The list of AI insiders sounding the alarm on their own companies keeps growing

Three OpenAI safety and alignment researchers were fired last week for mishandling sensitive misinformation, according to an article published by fastcompanyme.com under the headline 'The list of AI insiders sounding the alarm on their own companies keeps growing.' One of the three, Tomek Korbak, said online that his dismissal was due to how he had communicated information to the AI research nonprofit METR.

The article describes the three as safety and alignment researchers at OpenAI and reports that their firings took place last week, without giving a specific date. It states that Korbak's public account attributed his dismissal to the way he had passed information to METR, which the article identifies as an AI research nonprofit. The article frames the firings as part of a wider pattern, stating in its headline that the list of insiders speaking out about their own companies keeps growing.

The article does not name the other two researchers who were dismissed. It does not state what the sensitive misinformation consisted of, how the information reached METR, or what internal process preceded the firings, and it reports no comment from OpenAI or from METR. It also does not identify any other individuals who appear on the list of insiders it references. The headline characterises the trend of insiders raising concerns about their own employers as continuing to grow, and the article presents the three OpenAI dismissals as the latest instance of it.