Jeffrey Ladish and Daniel Kokotajlo are asking OpenAI to answer questions about the dismissal of three safety researchers. Both published their own responses to the researchers’ open letter on October 8.
Ladish calls for exceptionally high transparency and scrutiny of a company seeking to build superintelligence. OpenAI has a duty to address the claims, he writes.
Kokotajlo asks for evidence rather than insinuations. In his personal view, the researchers did nothing that justified dismissal. That is his assessment, not an independently established finding.
The letter by Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni warns of constraints on safety work. OpenAI denies retaliation. The two original reactions establish transparency requests, not coordination or resolution of the dismissal dispute.