AI safety researcher: "I don't think working at OpenAI is moral"
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-09
AI safety researcher Blanche Minerva says that for over a year, her standing advice to people considering industry AI jobs has been: "I don't think that working at OpenAI is moral." She adds: "Nobody has ever gone broke betting on OpenAI to do the immoral thing." The remark, from an industry insider, captures the ethics critique of OpenAI among safety-focused researchers and has drawn wide attention.
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