OpenAI Employees Accuse The Company Of Neglecting Safety & Security Protocols To Speed Through Innovations: Report

OpenAI has been at the frontline for quite some time when it comes to artificial intelligence and advanced Large Language Models. There have been instances wherein OpenAI employees have resigned from their positions while citing ignorance towards safety and security protocols as the reason. Recently another report has surfaced as per which OpenAI is speeding through and neglecting the safety and security protocols while developing new models. Three OpenAI employees have anonymously told The Washington Post that the team had been under pressure to speed through a new testing protocol which was specifically designed to “prevent the AI system from causing catastrophic harm, to meet a May launch date set by OpenAI's leaders.” The report has highlighted a similar incident which occurred before the launch of the GPT-4o. We basically failed at the process.” OpenAI employees have previously raised concerns about the company's apparent neglect of safety and security measures.