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Joined October 2024

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Nov 3
Promises aren't enough. @GoogleDeepMind must remove its onerous non-disparagement clauses from current employee contracts, so they can in no way be misused or misconstrued as intimidation. DeepMind workers who have concerns about AI safety should be able to speak up. Full stop.
Google researchers are fighting the company to tell the world what they know about AI
From washingtonpost.com
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@psst_org
Oct 22
This week two Google DeepMind employees quit in protest of the company's growing military contracts. @BlackHC quit warning Google’s oversight isn’t fit for military and classified use, and that it appears to have no say in how the Pentagon uses its AI. Sofia Liguori said she’d
Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military
From bbc.co.uk
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@psst_org
Oct 8
Thanks Congressman @RoKhanna! We couldn't agree more. Protecting the rights of AI whistleblowers is urgent. The workers on the frontlines are the first to see the danger. They need protections now, not tomorrow.
Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
Oct 8
This is why Congress needs to pass a whistleblower protection act that protects AI employees like Jasmine from retaliation and bullying.
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Jasmine Wang
@j_asminewang
Oct 8
OpenAI fired me last week, along with two of my safety colleagues. I was given one reason: that I accessed an executive's email. I want to say this plainly, because too many of OpenAI’s history is smoke and mirrors when people disappear:
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@psst_org
Oct 8
Good question. OpenAI hasn't answered it. @tomekkorbak was its main technical contact with @METR_Evals. @balesni was coordinating cross-lab work to keep AI reasoning monitorable. @j_asminewang co-led its safety cases program. @psst_org is honored to represent them.
Tomek Korbak
@tomekkorbak
Oct 8
Last week I was called into a meeting with OpenAI’s head of safety and told they no longer trust me. A security guard took my badge and walked me out of the building. Then I learned my colleagues @balesni and @j_asminewang had been fired too. Why did OpenAI suddenly stop trusting
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Mikita Balesni
@balesni
Oct 8
Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
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Sep 14
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