Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Speak Out in First Podcast Interview
Two fired OpenAI safety researchers, Tomasz Korbak and Ekdeep Balesni, gave their first podcast interview on Machine Gods, describing the events behind their dismissal and highlighting tensions between external oversight and secrecy at OpenAI.
2026-10-23 ~ 2026-10-24 · 2 related posts
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