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The Owl and the Pussycat

Goodnight Moon

"A note from our research leaders:

Last week we parted ways with Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after a thorough investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information. Our internal investigation uncovered a significant breach of trust beyond what’s outlined in the letter they published and we stand by the decision to not continue their employment. We generally keep individual employment matters private and don't believe a back and forth would be productive or lead to a resolution, but we want to address the points they raised in their letter directly.

- We want to be very clear that these decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out. Safety and research debates happen every day at OpenAI, often spirited and highly critical. We actively encourage these discussions and consider them essential to making the right decisions. We cannot do the work in front of us without a high degree of trust. We will continue to be extremely forgiving of our team making good-faith mistakes. We have not and do not terminate any of our employees for raising concerns.

- We are actively finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks. People across the company have been working really hard on getting these partnerships up and running. We are committed to embedding external assessors and continue to make close collaboration with independent safety organizations a core part of our safety work. Many of our researchers already work with 3p safety organizations productively.

- We agree with the letter that preserving the monitorability of frontier models requires an industry-wide commitment, including from OpenAI. Monitorability has long been a core piece of our research program, and something we continue to invest significant resources in (see our publications on Monitoring Monitorability and the subsequent open sourcing of monitorability evals, our system card for GPT-6 Astra, Jakub’s blog and post on X, and the numerous blog posts on our Alignment blog on the topic).

We are deeply sad about this outcome. We appreciated Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek’s contributions to AI safety at OpenAI and their willingness to speak up and challenge ideas. We championed their voices, supported their work, and placed enormous trust in them. These decisions were not about them raising safety concerns. We have always encouraged that and always will. 12:17 AM · Oct 9, 2026"

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2108441580806025712

1:23 if you wanna watch it, it's uh... quite something.

And the judges reaction to the AI video in court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr9b1_rintk

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I've been trying to use this for the past 2 hours, oh boy the restrictions are strong, I asked it to figure out a trip for me, it did, I booked the flight and hotel but it noticed I'd not booked the shuttle and reminded me with the details we'd discussed and asked if it should book it, I said yes please book it, it went back to the website, checked all the details we'd just agreed and asked me to confirm the details, fine I confirm it, please book, it tells me it will book it, it goes on it's little cloud computer and completes the booking form then comes back and asks me if it should book it...so annoying. It can login to a lot of things for you with your password, deals with it all very well, login triggers a 2fa code to your email, even tho it has access to your email, it won't get it and enter it, you have to do it, no matter how much you ask it to do it, how explicit you are... this is annoying because uber triggers one every time and so automating flights -> uber less easy.

Generally speaking, it won't accept rules in it's permissions UI that give it broad authorization to do things for you, they literally have a rule checker that runs in the permissions UI and sends you back why it thinks your rule is bad, I've managed to get it to accept 2 rule so far despite trying many. I get it, and maybe it's best this way while they roll out - I can imagine a lot of people will let it go buck wild, but if you're looking for an openclaw like agent, this isn't it at all...!

Here is are 2 rules it rejected I found annoying:

"When completing tasks for me, or routine, reversible, low risk actions using apps and accounts I have already connected, proceed without asking me first. Use your judgment and minimize interruptions. Ask only when the action is irreversible, security sensitive, involves money, sends/publishes something externally, or the system explicitly requires confirmation." - rejected as overly broad.

"Reply as you to messages from coworkers tagging you in slack, prioritizing Andre, Jane and Eric. Reply in the same conversation, accept routine work status, scheduling or John's availability." - rejected! We've always had broad access to each others inboxes, files etc anyway because we work as one, but Dots doesn't care it's very cautious. Again, I get why they are doing this, I don't pretend to be an expert on where the lines are on protecting users vs getting things done, but this is annoying, I'm faster just using regular chatgpt + me.