量子位, The Decoder · 18 sources量子位 · 18 sources · 26 reports · The turmoil of departures and firings in OpenAI's safety team
In October 2026, David Robinson, who was responsible for safety transparency functions at OpenAI and led the drafting of the Preparedness Framework, left the company and wrote in The Atlantic criticizing that the safety culture of the company and the industry has collapsed, arguing that frontier labs should have multiple layers of redundancy like nuclear power plants. Around the same time, safety researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni were fired. The three wrote to the board and the safety committee, denying the company's allegations that they mishandled sensitive information, saying the real reason was raising safety concerns, and calling for preserving the ability to monitor AI chain of thought. OpenAI responded that an internal investigation found the three violated sensitive information handling policies, constituting a major breach of trust, that the firings were unrelated to raising safety concerns, and that it is finalizing a contract with a third-party safety evaluation organization, with details to be announced in the coming weeks.