3 Fired OpenAI Employees Write Plea for Chain of Thought Monitoring to Be Preserved

A new letter from insiders about the potential dangers of AI is refreshingly specific. The writers are concerned, according to the Wall Street Journal, about preserving the ability to monitor models’ chains of thought. But the authors aren’t technically insiders now, because they were recently fired. Last week, OpenAI announced that it had “parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information.” They had allegedly conveyed said information to an AI safety organization. Those employees were Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, and they’re clearly of the school of thought that AI poses an existential risk.