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OpenAI should clarify safety information-sharing policies, Joshua Achiam says

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Joshua Achiam says OpenAI's comment on firing safety staff Jasmine, Tomek, and Mikita came late and lacked substance. He urges OpenAI to make its information-sharing policies explicit and to endorse mandated disclosure protections for staff who report through legal channels. He warns that ambiguity risks losing top safety talent.

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I'm glad OpenAI did comment ultimately on the choice to fire Jasmine, Tomek, and Mikita, though it should have been more substantive and happened earlier. The comms posture of being reactive on safety staffing issues, while being unclear with the policies about what information can and can't be shared, isn't going to solve the problem of restoring trust.

I would very much like to see leaders from OpenAI prove that OpenAI is the best place in the world to do AI safety research and applied AI safety by making the information sharing policies extremely explicit. This set of issues isn't going away. This is the worst possible moment to alienate potential safety staff, given the importance of the issue on technical grounds and the salience of the issue to the public.

I'd strongly recommend to OpenAI to endorse policy proposals that mandate disclosures from you and protect everyone who performs those disclosures through legally-established channels. Because the ambiguity is killing you, and you need to disambiguate fast. There's a risk of losing the best talent in the space and that just should not happen; we need all hands on deck at the frontier labs on safety going into ASI and RSI.

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