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title: "OpenAI fires three safety researchers over alleged leaks to outside group"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/openai-fires-three-safety-researchers-over-alleged-leaks-to-outside-grou-0fd0f7
source_name: "The Decoder"
source_url: https://the-decoder.com/three-firings-and-a-fourth-departure-shake-up-openais-safety-team/
published: 2026-10-02T12:51:08.000Z
topics: ["policy", "security"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
---

# OpenAI fires three safety researchers over alleged leaks to outside group

*2026-10-02 · Source: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/three-firings-and-a-fourth-departure-shake-up-openais-safety-team/)*

According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI parted ways with three researchers who allegedly leaked confidential information to an outside AI safety organization. A fourth researcher also departed.

**Why it matters:** Together with the recent safety-researcher resignation criticizing the company's culture, this suggests growing friction between internal safety staff and management. It also shows the risk for safety researchers who share information externally, which may reduce outside visibility into frontier labs.

**Topics:** policy, security

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