Ben Todd: OpenAI has made clear it can't be trusted on safety incident disclosure

ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-24

Ben Todd, co-founder of 80,000 Hours, reacted on X to an OpenAI safety incident controversy, writing that OpenAI "has made it abundantly clear we can't trust them to disclose safety incidents." A pointed critique of frontier-lab transparency from a prominent AI safety figure.

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