Fired OpenAI Researchers Ask Company to Preserve Visibility Into AI Reasoning
October 12, 2026

(WSJ) – In letter to the board, recently terminated employees ask the industry not to move forward with work that would degrade the ability to monitor AI
Three fired OpenAI employees called on the company to work with outside safety auditors and to preserve the ability to monitor increasingly sophisticated AI models as it grapples with how to best manage the novel risks of its technology.
In a letter addressed to OpenAI board members and safety committees, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the fired employees wrote that they were concerned artificial-intelligence companies could end up losing the ability to monitor AI systems’ chain-of-thought. (Read More)