{"id":980554,"date":"2025-12-16T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980554"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:56:04","slug":"openai-accused-of-self-censoring-research-by-data-scientist-who-quits-in-protest-making-chief-strategy-officer-jason-kwon-send-company-wide-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/16\/openai-accused-of-self-censoring-research-by-data-scientist-who-quits-in-protest-making-chief-strategy-officer-jason-kwon-send-company-wide-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI accused of self-censoring research by data scientist, who quits in protest making chief strategy officer Jason Kwon send company-wide memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI data scientist Tom Cunningham left the ChatGPT maker in September. Cunningham allegedly left the Sam Altman-led company in protest of OpenAI&#8217;s self-censorship of research on the adverse effects AI may have on a country\u2019s economy. The resignation marked a series of departures from OpenAI\u2019s financial research team, prompting Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon to circulate a memo to all employees in the company\u2019s bid to address research concerns, sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>A Wired report cited sources to claim that OpenAI has become more secretive about publishing research, making it difficult for the economic research team to release high-quality analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI data scientist Tom Cunningham left the ChatGPT maker in September. Cunningham allegedly left the Sam Altman-led company in protest of OpenAI&#8217;s self-censorship of research on the adverse effects AI may have on a country\u2019s economy. The resignation marked a series of departures from OpenAI\u2019s financial research team, prompting Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon to circulate a memo to all employees in the company\u2019s bid to address research concerns, sources confirmed. A Wired report cited sources to claim that OpenAI has become more secretive about publishing research, making it difficult for the economic research team to release high-quality analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}