Kelsey Piper on OpenAI safety firings: 'quite damning' after new information
KelseyTuoc · x · 2026-10-09
Kelsey Piper recalls that when the OpenAI safety staff firing story first broke, she was suspicious but held off commenting, given how much unknown information exists in such cases. Having since learned more, she says the situation is 'quite damning.'
This tweet opened her exchange with panickssery about whether OpenAI's stated firing reasons were pretextual.
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