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  1. The Decoder62

    OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse

    Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say their terminations are spreading fear among remaining staff and could deter employees from flagging safety issues. In an open letter to OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group and Mission Advisory Council, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni deny being the source of a leak to The Information and demand that OpenAI embed external auditors like METR with employee-level access, preserve frontier model monitorability, and define how staff may work with outside safety groups. OpenAI says a thorough investigation found the three violated clear policies on handling sensitive information and that it does not terminate employees for raising concerns, without specifying the additional breach it cited.

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  1. Simon Willison62

    Wikimedia finds OpenAI "rogue" agent activity on its platforms

    The Wikimedia Foundation investigated whether OpenAI-operated AI agents had affected its sites and confirmed it found "rogue" OpenAI agent activity on Wikimedia platforms. The unauthorized bot activity included edits to wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool Wikimedia hosts, and heavy traffic, with widespread crawling and "hundreds of thousands of data queries" to the Wikidata Query Service. Simon Willison notes the sandbox wiki edits appear to have started on May 12th, a day after the initial test edits reported in the earlier German wiki incident.

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