Kelsey Piper
Role at the time: Journalist at The Argument
Condemned
Statement summary
Piper describes new information about the firings as incredibly bad and argues that firing researchers for communication with assigned investigators would be outrageous.
“OpenAI's firing of safety researchers. That information is in, and it looks incredibly bad.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Kelsey Piper criticizes the firings after the researchers' accounts · Kelsey PiperOpening post of the commentary thread.
Piper describes moving from waiting for more information to criticizing the firings after reading Korbak's account.
Why we used this label
The conduct under scrutiny is the firings. Piper's thread evaluates them negatively, while distinguishing a hypothetical unauthorized disclosure from assigned work.