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Epistemic status: not a lawyer, but I've worked with a lot of them.
As I understand it, an NDA isn't enforceable against a subpoena (though the former employer can seek a protective order for the testimony). Someone should really encourage law enforcement or Congress to subpoena the OpenAI resigners...
1Hypothesis, super weakly held and based on anecdote:
One big difference between US national security policy people and AI safety people is that the "grieving the possibility that we might all die" moment happened, on average, more years ago for the national security policy person than the AI safety person.
This is (even more weakly held) because the national security field has existed for longer, so many participants literally had the "oh, what happens if we get nuked by Russia" moment in their careers in the Literal 1980s...