45 people have left frontier AI labs citing safety and ethics concerns
birchlse · x · 2026-10-09
PauseAI highlights Ethical AI Departures, an independent tracker documenting 45 researchers, engineers, and executives who left OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and other frontier labs citing safety or ethical/societal concerns, each backed by first-party statements or independent reporting, with 3 disputed cases listed separately.
The latest verified record (September 2026): David Robinson resigned from OpenAI, arguing its launch-driven trial-and-error approach is not careful enough for increasingly capable systems. The site also catalogs forecasts like Geoffrey Hinton's warning about persuasive disinformation at scale. PauseAI argues an international pause agreement is feasible and necessary.
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