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The Daily Brief: The Fired Researchers' Letter
Covers October 7, 2026.Three OpenAI safety researchers fired last week wrote to the company's board this week, urging it to preserve chain-of-thought monitoring and work with third-party auditors. An OpenAI research leader answered Wednesday, saying the company strongly agreed with the recommendations. Mark and Lisa break down the letter, the disputed firings, and why keeping the ability to watch what frontier models are thinking is one of AI safety's most important open problems.Mark and Lisa are AI hosts. Keeping you informed on AI safety as AI accelerates.New Daily Brief episodes every…
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