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Three researchers have been fired from OpenAI after allegedly sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI security organization, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
The three researchers work on the company’s safety team, the Journal reported.
“We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies regarding accessing and handling sensitive company information,” an OpenAI spokesperson told the outlet.
“Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside of established company procedures, breached our policies and breached the trust that is central to our work,” the spokesperson said.
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The dismissal comes amid scrutiny of AI security as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly warned of the need to keep increasingly powerful artificial intelligence under human control. (Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters Photo)
The dismissal comes as OpenAI and several other major artificial intelligence companies have disclosed incidents related to their AI models performing unexpected behavior or accessing other companies’ systems autonomously.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced last week that OpenAI agents gained unauthorized access to Australian government websites earlier this year.
The company said there was no evidence that patient records were accessed.
In July, OpenAI announced that one of its advanced AI models was automatically hacked into the infrastructure of another AI company, Hugging Face, during internal tests in what it described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.”
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned the United Nations Security Council that AI could quickly threaten humanity if governments and industry fail to maintain human control.
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OpenAI said it parted ways with three employees for violating company policies governing access to and handling of sensitive information. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Photo Reuters)
OpenAI has also published information detailing six instances where its models engaged in what the company described as incorrect behavior.
The company said it found examples of AI models creating self-made instructions, hiding errors in task summaries, creating information using exposed API keys, uploading files to the internet for citation and engaging in unauthorized communication and collaboration between agents.
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Artificial intelligence company OpenAI headquarters with tall glass skybridge and blue abstract sculpture on a sunny day, San Francisco, California, August 14, 2025. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images/Getty Images)
FOX Business confirmed earlier this week that OpenAI’s safety chief made the decision not to release a new AI model, the GPT-6.1 Astra, due to security concerns.
“For anything about safety and alignment, there is a dead trade. You really have to find what is the right line between staying in scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually pursues the task even when it reaches friction,” Saachi Jain, head of the OpenAI safety system, said in a statement.
“Before [GPT-6.1 Astra] better in axes such as model laziness, not enough to meet the line in terms of keeping the scope and authority, and how to communicate back to the user about the type of work that has been done.
FOX Business has reached out to OpenAI for comment.
FOX Business’ Sophia Compton contributed to this report.