OpenAI
Role at the time: OpenAI response to CNBC's employee-warning inquiry
"OpenAI declined to comment when approached by CNBC"
CNBC reports that OpenAI declined its request for comment about employee AI-safety warnings while pointing to recent company blog posts.
- First noted
- September 10, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
Why we used this label
This is an expressly reported declined-comment request, not inferred silence and not a refusal about the separate mathematics-credit dispute.
Context
Before the quotation
CNBC was reporting contemporaneous warnings by employees of OpenAI and Anthropic about the pace and risks of frontier AI development.
After the quotation
The excerpt is the reporter's wording. OpenAI noted recent blog posts, so the record does not imply it had no public safety position. Inquiry time unknown; September 10 reporting-date proxy and 12:00 UTC placeholder.
Sources
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. Interview times are unspecified; publication date is the proxy. Only the calendar date is established; 12:00 UTC is a date-only storage placeholder, not a verified time.