{"id":187272,"date":"2024-04-12T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/openai-fires-researchers-for-leaking-information"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:23:32","slug":"openai-fires-researchers-for-leaking-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/openai-fires-researchers-for-leaking-information","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-fires-researchers-for-leaking-information2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/openai-researchers-including-ally-of-sutskever-fired-for-alleged-leaking\" class=\"\"><em>The Information<\/em> reports<\/a> based on insider knowledge, the firm has fired researchers Leopold Aschenbrenner \u2014 said to be a close ally of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-already-sentient\" class=\"\">embattled cofounder<\/a> Ilya Sutskever \u2014 and Pavel Izmailov.<\/p>\n<p>Both men had worked on OpenAI\u2019s safety team, per the report, though most recently, Aschenbrenner had been working on its so-called \u201csuperalignment\u201d efforts while Izmailov was tasked with researching AI reasoning. We\u2019ve reached out to OpenAI and Microsoft, its major investor, for further context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public. As The Information reports based on insider knowledge, the firm has fired researchers Leopold Aschenbrenner \u2014 said to be a close ally of embattled cofounder Ilya Sutskever \u2014 and Pavel Izmailov. Both men had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}