OpenAI’s Battle Over Safety, Secrecy, and Internal Dissent

A timeline tracing OpenAI’s shift from a safety-focused research lab to a commercial AI leader, marked by boardroom conflicts, high-profile exits of safety researchers, whistleblower complaints, regulatory scrutiny, and now reported firings over sensitive data shared with outside AI evaluators. The arc runs from the company’s 2015 founding through ChatGPT-era growth and subsequent governance crises. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.