OpenAI declines to comment on employee AI-safety warnings
OpenAIOpenAI response to CNBC's employee-warning inquiry
CNBC reports that OpenAI declined its request for comment about employee AI-safety warnings while pointing to recent company blog posts.
“OpenAI declined to comment when approached by CNBC”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
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CNBC attributes a safety defense to an Anthropic spokesperson, separately says Anthropic declined a request about Sacks's post, and says OpenAI declined its employee-warning inquiry while noting recent blog posts. The two refusal excerpts are the reporter's wording, not verbatim corporate speech.
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CNBC was reporting contemporaneous warnings by employees of OpenAI and Anthropic about the pace and risks of frontier AI development.
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The excerpt is the reporter's wording. OpenAI noted recent blog posts, so the record does not imply it had no public safety position.
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Why this label?
This is an expressly reported declined-comment request, not inferred silence and not a refusal about the separate mathematics-credit dispute.
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