Twenty House Democrats Ask OpenAI to Protect Whistleblowers and Maintain Model Pause

The letter names three researchers fired after internal checks found messages in Signal chats with an external researcher. OpenAI claims they were terminated for violating confidentiality rules, though the researchers assert no confidential data was shared. The lawmakers also questioned whether other staff raised safety concerns and were dismissed, and asked for details on communications and policies. OpenAI currently holds a pause on frontier model training and testing, resuming only when additional safeguards are in place.

Summarised from the original article by an open-source model, then checked automatically: every number and English name must appear in the source. The original article is authoritative.