Soon you will learn on HN that they fired themselves as part of a marketing campaign before IPO.

The BBC link is fine, but the TechCrunch article contains all of that information and more.

Ok, but considering how weird definitions of "safety" are floating out of these companies, it does not mean much.

Leopold Aschenbrenner said the exact same thing after he was fired from OpenAI. It's a great excuse to explain a sudden loss of employment to others so you're still employable.

It's probably the case they are all lying to some extent including OpenAI. Determining the truth is always tricky. Hard to pass judgement here when it's all just he said vs she said.

Seems they're well aware they got fired for sharing private company information with 3rd parties, the submission article contains their admission of this:

> Those of us who work on safety see risks before anyone else, and we rely on close collaboration with outside experts to work out how to address them

I too see it as my life-given goal to help other humans. But I realize that sometimes this means breaking the rules and standing for the consequences of that. I'm not sure why they think OpenAI somehow would be OK with them sharing private company information with random 3rd parties that the company didn't approve sharing data with.