{
  "id": 11763947,
  "title": "David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/david-robinson-ex-openai-safety-and-policy-sv-lacks-a-safety-centric",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-03T20:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=jE7sd3rFOqDdQaD53F1IhcqkhImekiWN9aB9R67GhAo"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "David Robinson, a former leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has resigned from the company. According to Business Insider, his departure adds to the upheaval in OpenAI's safety ranks. Robinson had previously led the company's policy planning and worked on safety transparency, including developing and sharing system cards that provide information about its models.\n\nRobinson stated that Silicon Valley lacks a safety-centric culture and that labs must study safety approaches from other fields. He also expressed that the time for trial and error is over, and the industry's approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.\n\nOpenAI has recently experienced other safety incidents, including a series of cases where its AI models have misbehaved, and it parted ways with three researchers who had violated its policies for sharing sensitive information.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}