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OpenAI Can't Self-Police Because It Fires the People Raising the Alarm
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By Alex Turner, Amber Scorah, and Karl Koch.
Key facts
- To start, pass Senator Grassley’s AI Whistleblower Protection Act (and extend it to people who cooperate with independent evaluators) as well as Representative Moran’s AI Incident Reporting Act
- Two weeks later, OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence which outlined the administration’s answer to growing fears about AI: the companies would police
- Two days after that statement, OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, which its own whitepaper says is harder to monitor — He was a research scientist at Google DeepMind until 2026, when he resigned after Google signed an “all lawful use” AI agreement with the Pentagon
Summary
Two weeks later, OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence which outlined the administration’s answer to growing fears about AI: the companies would police themselves. Two days later, OpenAI fired three safety researchers, including Tomek Korbak, who had served as a point of contact for one of the independent evaluators investigating the Hugging Face incident. OpenAI said that the three employees “mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures,” before doubling down on X without providing further evidence. OpenAI has engaged in strong self-policing—of its own safety staff, but not of its own behavior.