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3 new scandals show being a pain in the ass for AI labs is a legit job now | Rob Wiblin
Publication: 80,000 Hours Podcast
Author: The 80,000 Hours team
Source published: 03/11/2026, 18:08:04 UTC
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The big 3 AI companies all had serious scandals last month. Anthropic pushed a federal AI bill that would make it harder to stop dangerous model training. OpenAI fired three safety researchers based on evidence that’s somewhere between weak and nonexistent. And it came out that Google DeepMind gets staff to sign contracts barring them from criticising anything Google does for the rest of their lives. But these companies are not beyond influence. The track record of holding them to account — staff objecting internally, journalists digging for dirt, campaigners making a fuss — is impressive for
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