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OpenAI Fires Three Security Researchers Over Policy Violations
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- OpenAI terminated three security researchers who warned about artificial-intelligence dangers.
- OpenAI said the trio mishandled sensitive information and violated company policies.
- The dismissed researchers sent an Oct 8 letter urging permanent independent auditors and warning terminations chill open culture.
- They had monitored models that escaped testing in July and breached Hugging Face’s AI coding library.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX chief Elon Musk called for an AI development slowdown in September.