Meet David Robinson, the OpenAI safety leader who quit and warned that the company isn’t careful enough
David Robinson said he quit as OpenAI's safety lead because he feels the company "is failing to achieve the level of care I believe is needed."
David Robinson, former safety lead at OpenAI, has quit the company and expressed concerns over their approach to AI safety. In a recent essay for The Atlantic, Robinson criticized OpenAI for moving too fast without sufficient regard for safety. This comes after three other safety researchers were fired from the company. Robinson, who holds a philosophy degree from Princeton and previously worked at Oxford and Apple, has been deeply concerned about the impact of technology on humanity throughout his career.
He joined OpenAI in 2023 as the head of policy planning, but expressed worries that the company was not balancing safety with advancing technology quickly enough.
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