# Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are "chilling those who remain at OpenAI" (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) — retained record

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[OpenAI Inc.](https://highsignal.app/entities/OPENAI)[original source ↗](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/fired-openai-researchers-ask-company-to-preserve-visibility-into-ai-reasoning-987c8c94?st=SSs38V&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)

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<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/fired-openai-researchers-ask-company-to-preserve-visibility-into-ai-reasoning-987c8c94?st=SSs38V&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/261007/i42.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/261007/p42#a261007p42" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Maxwell Zeff / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/fired-openai-researchers-ask-company-to-preserve-visibility-into-ai-reasoning-987c8c94?st=SSs38V&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are &ldquo;chilling those who remain at OpenAI&rdquo;</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In a letter to the board, recently-terminated employees ask that the industry not move forward with work that would degrade the ability to monitor AI</p>
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