Tomek Korbak
Role at the time: Former OpenAI safety researcher, METR technical contact and letter signatory
Condemned
Response to this claim
Tomek Korbak says communication with METR was his assigned job and that OpenAI provided no specific example or written explanation of the communication it cited when firing him.
“Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAI has prized in the past.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Tomek Korbak's account of his dismissal and work with METR · Tomek KorbakExpanded original post, paragraphs describing the termination meeting and communication with METR.
Korbak describes what he says he was told during his dismissal and disputes the treatment of communication with outside investigators. He presents safety advocacy as his belief about the reason, rather than an independently established finding.
Why we used this label
The conduct under scrutiny is the dismissals and their handling. Korbak signed a letter criticizing their abrupt execution and chilling effect on safety work.