I don't know all the details, but Jasmine, Mikita and Tomek were all well respected core contributors to safety work at OpenAI, and it seems very concerning that all three of them do not seem to know why they were fired. The potential for a chilling effect is obvious.
OpenAI fired me last week, along with two of my safety colleagues. I was given one reason: that I accessed an executive's email. I want to say this plainly, because too many of OpenAI’s history is smoke and mirrors when people disappear: