Ben Todd: OpenAI sits on the most important misalignment data ever and won't share it
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-06
Ben Todd (co-founder of 80000 Hours) argues OpenAI appears to be holding "the most important trove of data about misalignment EVER" and refusing to share most of it — reigniting the transparency debate over whether frontier labs' internal safety findings should be accessible to outside researchers and policymakers.
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