The departures follow a report that confidential infrastructure details reached an outside AI-safety group.
The Hacker News reports that OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, after they shared confidential company information with a third-party AI-safety organization, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company "parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," adding that its investigation "confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work."
According to Bloomberg, the mishandled material concerned OpenAI's infrastructure architecture. All three researchers had previously raised concerns about the pace of AI development, and the departures follow a New York Times report describing a pattern at OpenAI of sidelining employee safety warnings to keep model releases on schedule.
Why it matters: as enterprises hand more of their stack to AI vendors, how those vendors govern access to their own sensitive infrastructure data becomes a direct input to enterprise AI risk. Internal information-handling controls, not just model-level safety testing, belong on every AI vendor due-diligence checklist.