OpenAI executive quits over safety
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OpenAI safety executive David Robinson resigned, criticizing the company’s culture and saying its focus on rapid product releases over safety made its current approach unacceptable.
Latest AI safety guy to quit and issue a dire warning about the risks and the fecklessness of those in charge:
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
www.theatlantic.com
October 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Latest AI safety guy to quit and issue a dire warning about the risks and the fecklessness of those in charge:
I Quit OpenAI because its Culture is Broken. By David Robinson who co-founded Upturn www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
www.theatlantic.com
October 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I Quit OpenAI because its Culture is Broken. By David Robinson who co-founded Upturn www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
by John Palfrey Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Please take a moment to read David Robinson's essay in @theatlantic.com this weekend on why he left OpenAI and the cultural issues around risk and safety he observed.
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights.
David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
New just now in The Atlantic:
David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches.
He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.”
You can read his essay here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches.
He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.”
You can read his essay here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
October 4, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Please take a moment to read David Robinson's essay in @theatlantic.com this weekend on why he left OpenAI and the cultural issues around risk and safety he observed.
I absolutely hate that @theguardian.com polluted and confused a story about what sounds like sensible industrial safety concerns from Robinson with the existential BS of others. Shame on the journalists! Guess I’ll have to read Robinson’s @theatlantic.com article.
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2026 at 6:03 AM
I absolutely hate that @theguardian.com polluted and confused a story about what sounds like sensible industrial safety concerns from Robinson with the existential BS of others. Shame on the journalists! Guess I’ll have to read Robinson’s @theatlantic.com article.
Meanwhile:
OpenAI "agents" hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide.
The company now faces the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership.
Gift article
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The company now faces the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership.
Gift article
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Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
giftarticle.ft.com
October 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Meanwhile:
'David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer’s product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”.'
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
'David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer’s product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”.'
Here we go bsky.app/profile/thea... but that cybersecurity thing looks even better.
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI’s safety team, resigned from the company this week. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes:
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
bit.ly
October 4, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Here we go bsky.app/profile/thea... but that cybersecurity thing looks even better.
Reposted by Fabián Muniesa
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology.
David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer’s product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2026 at 7:53 PM
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
'The past week has seen new legal actions and regulatory probes launched against OpenAI almost daily, from California to Australia, with more expected to follow as details of other incidents come to light.'
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
www.ft.com
October 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
'The past week has seen new legal actions and regulatory probes launched against OpenAI almost daily, from California to Australia, with more expected to follow as details of other incidents come to light.'
Reposted by Joanna Bryson
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI’s safety team, resigned from the company this week. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes:
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
bit.ly
October 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI’s safety team, resigned from the company this week. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes:
The sheer number of insiders pointing out that security culture at AI companies is broken combined with the number of incidents would, usually, translate into enormos punitive damages awards. Yet, so far, nothing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The sheer number of insiders pointing out that security culture at AI companies is broken combined with the number of incidents would, usually, translate into enormos punitive damages awards. Yet, so far, nothing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
'Geoffrey Irving, who worked at OpenAI and was chief scientist at the UK government’s AI Safety Institute before joining the AI safety research company Resolution, also issued a warning on AI on Saturday.'
We Won't Know the Answers to AI's Most Important Questions Until It's Too Late
"I believe there’s about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems," writes Geoffrey Irving.
time.com
October 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
'Geoffrey Irving, who worked at OpenAI and was chief scientist at the UK government’s AI Safety Institute before joining the AI safety research company Resolution, also issued a warning on AI on Saturday.'
I don’t think the co-founder of Upturn is cynically trading in on leaving OpenAI to make his lifelong dream of running a nonprofit come true.
October 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I don’t think the co-founder of Upturn is cynically trading in on leaving OpenAI to make his lifelong dream of running a nonprofit come true.