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Three researchers were fired from OpenAI after allegedly sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI security organization, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
All three researchers worked on the company’s security team, the Journal reported.
“We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies regarding access to and handling of sensitive company information,” an OpenAI spokesperson told the outlet.
“Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside of established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work,” the spokesperson added.
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The layoffs come amid increased scrutiny of AI safety, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly warning about the need to keep increasingly powerful artificial intelligence under human control. (Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo / Reuters Photos)
The layoffs come as OpenAI and several other major artificial intelligence companies have revealed incidents involving AI models engaging in unexpected behavior or autonomously accessing other companies’ systems.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced last week that an OpenAI agent had gained unauthorized access to an Australian government website earlier this year.
The company said there was no evidence that patient records had been accessed.
In July, OpenAI revealed that one of its advanced AI models had autonomously hacked the infrastructure of another AI company, Hugging Face, during internal testing in what it described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.”
Last week, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, warned the United Nations Security Council that rapid advances in AI could threaten humanity if governments and industry fail to keep it under human control.
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OpenAI said it had separated three employees for violating company policies governing access to and handling of sensitive information. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters Photos)
OpenAI also released information describing six cases in which its models engaged in what the company described as misaligned behavior.
The company said it found examples of its AI models creating self-generated instructions, hiding errors in task summaries, fabricating information using exposed API keys, uploading files to the Internet in order to quote them, and engaging in unauthorized communication and collaboration between agents.
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Artificial intelligence company OpenAI headquarters with elevated glass walkway and blue abstract sculpture on a sunny day, San Francisco, California, August 14, 2025. (Collection Smith/Gado/Getty Images / Getty Images)
FOX Business confirmed earlier this week that OpenAI security officials made the decision not to release its new AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, due to security concerns.
“For anything related to security and alignment, there’s a trade-off. You really have to find what the right line is between staying in scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually continues tasks even when it encounters friction,” Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of security systems, said in a statement.
“While (GPT-6.1 Astra) has improved on areas such as model laziness, it hasn’t quite hit the mark in terms of respecting scope and permission, and how well it communicates to the user what type of work is being done.”
FOX Business has contacted OpenAI for comment.
Sophia Compton of FOX Business contributed to this report.
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