OpenAI Fires METR Liaison, Undermining Its Third-Party Safety Investigation Narrative
KelseyTuoc · x · 2026-10-09
Kelsey Tuoc breaks down the controversy: OpenAI earned praise for transparency over its third-party (METR-involving) investigation of the HuggingFace hacks, but the liaison to METR for that investigation has now been fired, with no specific misconduct disclosed.
Debating @panickssery, she argues the stated reasons may be pretextual but legally unnecessary; the core point is that a reasonable person placed in a liaison role after this firing would assume many kinds of communication with METR could get them fired — a real blow to OpenAI's safety-transparency narrative.
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