OpenAI Faces Congressional Probes as Employees Risk Careers to Brief NYT on Safety Warnings
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-30
Gary Marcus amplifies lawyer Nathan Calvin's analysis of new NYT reporting: OpenAI employees felt strongly enough about recent events to take personal and legal risks by speaking to the paper.
Calvin argues that either the nonprofit board's safety and security committee was never told about these warnings, or it knew and failed to intervene—both options "seem very bad." He adds the reporting bears directly on whether OpenAI is fulfilling the legal promises it made to the California and Delaware AGs during its nonprofit restructuring to put safety before commercial interests.
Marcus adds: daily congressional investigations at federal and state levels during your IPO is "not great—but that's what OpenAI is now looking at. They made their own bed."
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