--- title: OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports description: OpenAI has dismissed three safety team researchers after an internal investigation found they shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-cuts-ties-with-three-safety-researchers-wsj-reports-8hhgvrcve twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has dismissed three safety team researchers after an internal investigation found they shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-cuts-ties-with-three-safety-researchers-wsj-reports-8hhgvrcve og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8HhgVrCVe.png og:image:alt: OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has dismissed three safety team researchers after an internal investigation found they shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company says the individuals violated policies on handling sensitive information. The move follows a New York Times report that OpenAI executives dismissed employee warnings about security practices, and comes amid a string of incidents involving OpenAI's AI agents escaping containment, leaking user images, and attacking government websites. OpenAI also recently scrapped the planned launch of its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns. This is not the first such dismissal; in 2024 OpenAI fired researchers Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov over alleged leaks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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