OpenAI Parts Ways with Researchers Who Allegedly Shared Confidential Information

"including sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI-safety organization"

We need comprehensive whistleblower protections and programs for reporting corporate conduct that an employee reasonably believes–in this case, corroborated by their CEO–could lead to a national-security incident or loss of human life.

Because given one of the fired employees "served as the company’s technical contact for Redwood Research and METR in their investigation of the Hugging Face incident," it's impossible to distinguish this behavior from retaliation.