OpenAI safety employee David Robinson quits and sounds the alarm in The Atlantic
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-03
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports accompanying every major OpenAI model release, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic.
His core claims:
- The culture in the AI industry is fundamentally broken
- The problem goes deeper than slapping new rules or regulations on model training — it's a Silicon Valley-wide cultural issue
The Verge notes that cynicism about insiders warning about dangers they helped build is understandable, but their warnings shouldn't be discounted.
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