OpenAI safety officer quits, warns of broken culture

David Robinson, who wrote safety reports at OpenAI, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic criticizing the company's culture as fundamentally broken. He argues AI companies need nuclear-level safeguards and humility, not just new regulations. Robinson joins other researchers departing prominent AI firms.

Frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster.