alt Hacker Newsthe main issue here is whether their manager authorized the activity in question or not. If not - well, it is your kindergarden level mistake, you're an employee at a business venture, and there are basic rules.
And now you're writing a letter to the Party Central Committee using Party approved newspeak
"We do not believe the path to superintelligence ..."
and reporting to the Party issues at the factory ... De ja vu from USSR.
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againstapples • today at 9:53 PM
I think they mean the smarter than human kind of superintelligence not the newspeak one
The second page of the letter describes in detail how they followed company protocol and took only authorized actions in their communications with METR (which was Tomek’s assigned role as liaison). The OpenAI response on twitter is very vague and just says “there was more to it than the stuff in the letter”: https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2108441580806025712
We’ll see if OAI’s side ever comes out, but right now there’s nothing contradicting the idea they were fired on a pretext.