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An OpenAI Safety Employee Has Quit and Is Sounding the Alarm

David Robinson, who led safety transparency work on OpenAI’s Safety Systems team and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches, has resigned and written in The Atlantic that the company’s culture is broken. We set out what he wrote, the Hugging Face and DNS incidents he points to, what he wants labs to copy from nuclear plants and airports, how OpenAI has replied, and what the debate means for businesses that build on frontier AI.

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