Casey Newton retweeted
Exclusive: fired OpenAI whistleblowers involved with the METR investigation into the Hugging Face hack, @tomekkorbak and @balesni, sit down with @KevinRoose and @CaseyNewton.
New Machine Gods with @NPR is out now.
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Based on this article, OpenAI has made false accusations about me. The three researchers fired from OpenAI were told I facilitated architecture leaks to The Information. This is false.
A journalist from The Information did reach out to me shortly before that article came out. I did not comment at all beyond asking the journalist to make it clear that a blog post I wrote which was referenced in the article was preexisting and public.
The article also mentions an internal OpenAI monitorability proposal. I have heard that this memo contained highly sensitive architecture information, and that OpenAI accused me of accessing and reading it. This accusation is also false.
As reported in the article, I viewed a version of the proposal that did not have sensitive IP and was approved for sharing with me. I believe OpenAI now knows this accusation was based on a conflation of these two documents, though I do not know if they have clearly retracted that accusation.
I do not and have never solicited proprietary information, and the three employees who were recently fired from OpenAI never leaked IP to me. As the article mentions, I did have Signal chats with them that had disappearing messages on; they’re professional contacts that I’ve had on Signal for a while, and use of Signal is common in the tech industry. During the Hugging Face investigation, I was careful to avoid sending Signal messages with confidential information, though I did sometimes discuss high level things on Signal calls. As far as I understood, this was normal.
New: The three researchers OpenAI fired last month spent the summer fighting to keep AI's chain-of-thought process visible.
Then, OpenAI asked to see their Signal chats. A week later, they were let go.
More below from @keachhagey, @berber_jin1, and me.
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In their first podcast interview, fired OpenAI safety researchers @balesni and @tomekkorbak give us their account of the events leading up to their dismissal. It's a wild story: youtube.com/watch?v=tjAg_KxA…
Wrote a lil manifesto with @kevinroose about what we're trying to do at Machine Gods. We call it AI realism platformer.news/machine-gods…
Casey Newton retweeted
Tomorrow on @MachineGodsPod: the first interview with @balesni and @tomekkorbak, two of the three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired earlier this month.
Thanks for letting me know about your book EXACTLY WHAT TO DO ABOUT AI whose final draft was due 18 months ago and comes out in December
Having to hit shift-ESC to clear a badge every time someone hearts a post in Slack driving me slowly insane
Claude Duet launching as a separate, mobile-only app makes it way less useful than OpenAI's Dots, which you can access from everywhere. Agents are for work, and the phone is an inferior work device
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one episode in , @MachineGodsPod is #3! come join us we’re having fun
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Today’s PHP security risks got me thinking about how I could have been more vulnerable with you. Perhaps we can patch things up and be there 4 one another.
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Replying to @kevinroose
@KevinRoose and @CaseyNewton see their new podcast set for the first time 👀
Machine Gods, NPR's official podcast of the singularity, premieres TOMORROW on a brand new set. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.





















