OpenAI safety report lead quits, calls company culture 'broken'
David Robinson, who spent 3.5 years at OpenAI overseeing safety reports for frontier launches and drafting its current Preparedness Framework, has left the company and published an Atlantic essay calling its culture "broken" and saying "the time for trial and error is over" on AI safety risk. He argued labs should run like nuclear plants and airports, with layers of redundancy, but said he and colleagues were "so busy sprinting" they rarely had time to consider big changes. His exit follows OpenAI firing researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni over reportedly passing sensitive information to an outside safety group.