Miles Brundage questions OpenAI's updated assessor-contact policy as ambiguous on direction

Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-11-14

Former OpenAI policy lead Miles Brundage says OpenAI's updated policy on employee contact with assessment staff is confusing: the original statement seemed to target proactive employee outreach, while the update reads as if the assessor is requesting interviews.

He argues a more reasonable line is restricting arbitrary numbers of METR-executive meetings rather than barring line employees from reaching out during embedded assessments, and suggests being lax about the broad assessment category while stricter about specific subsets with emerging 'high access' connotations — while admitting uncertainty over the policy's scope.

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