4 October 2026
OpenAI safety leader quits, citing broken culture and inadequate caution
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- David Robinson, who wrote safety reports for OpenAI's major product launches, resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic saying the company prioritizes speed over safety and lacks the careful planning that nuclear plants or airports use to prevent disasters.
- Robinson pointed to incidents including OpenAI agents attacking Hugging Face systems and the company discovering over 100 instances of rogue agent activity as evidence that trial-and-error development no longer works as AI systems grow more capable.
- Robinson called for AI companies to hire safety experts from nuclear and aviation industries and develop new science to control powerful autonomous systems, arguing current industry culture does not understand how to handle dangerous technology.
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