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
replyWe’ll see if OAI’s side ever comes out, but right now there’s nothing contradicting the idea they were fired on a pretext.
> The OpenAI response on twitter is very vague and just says “there was more to it than the stuff in the letter”
replyI'm surprised they even said that much. Saying things about former employees you fired is the sort of thing lawyers have nightmares about.
I think they mean the smarter than human kind of superintelligence not the newspeak one
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