Wall Street Journal: OpenAI’s security team called three outspoken safety researchers into meetings last month and asked them to unlock their personal phones.
The company suspected the three of leaking information to an external AI-safety researcher about one of OpenAI’s most closely guarded secrets: the internal designs of its artificial-intelligence models.
…In particular, the fired researchers said they had raised concerns inside OpenAI about potential new AI designs, or “architectures,” that could accelerate capabilities, but make the systems even harder to understand or control.
They said they were worried their firing will serve as an excuse for OpenAI to close a channel to independent third-party oversight…