OpenAI safety employee quits, saying 'time for trial and error is over'
app1310 · reddit · 2026-10-04
Per Reuters, an OpenAI safety employee has resigned, stating that 'the time for trial and error is over' — an implied criticism of safety practices lagging the pace of capability development. It adds to a pattern of safety-team departures at OpenAI and underscores the tension between frontier scaling and internal safety voices.
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