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"It looks like they're firing whistleblowers." Altman purged 3 AI safety researchers for allegedly leaking data to an outside safety group. Hours later, OpenAI's Head of Safety Systems quit.

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  1. 2026-10-02 19:31 · r/singularity
    Three OpenAI “safety” researchers reportedly handed an outside group sensitive blueprints of OpenAI’s AI infrastructure
  2. 2026-10-02 16:33 · r/agi
    "It looks like they're firing whistleblowers." Altman purged 3 AI safety researchers for allegedly leaking data to an outside safety group. Hours later, OpenAI's Head of Safety Systems quit.

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