Do You Feel Guilty Working at OpenAI? Reddit Probes Frontier Lab Culture Amid Departure Alarms
alicemac17 · reddit · 2026-09-26
A Reddit question aimed at OpenAI employees asks whether safety concerns are seriously debated inside frontier labs, as a steady stream of departures publicly warns about AI's destructive potential — or whether insiders hold nuance the public misses. The thread fuels ongoing debate about lab culture and the ethics of working on frontier models.
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