OpenAI Safety Employee Resigns Over Its ‘Broken’ Culture: What Nuclear Safety Culture Would Demand
David Robinson resigned from OpenAI saying its culture is broken and that frontier AI labs should run like nuclear power plants. We set out what nuclear safety culture actually involves: the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl lessons, the NRC’s nine traits, resident inspectors, one-hour reporting clocks, whistleblower law, the Davis-Besse failure, what AI labs have instead, and where the comparison breaks down.