Fired OpenAI safety researcher's sardonic take: audits were 'too much safety'
tomekkorbak · x · 2026-10-23
Former OpenAI researcher tomekkorbak offers a sardonic explanation for his firing: talking to auditors counted as "too much safety," using disappearing messages as "too much security," and the team "should have paced ourselves." A rare on-the-record quip from one of the researchers caught up in the OpenAI safety-team dismissal controversy.
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