OpenAI safety employee David Robinson departs, says company culture is broken

David Robinson, who worked at OpenAI for three and a half years and was responsible for writing safety reports on major product launches, published an article in The Atlantic announcing his departure, saying the company culture is broken. He believes the iterative deployment trial-and-error method inevitably brings periodic failures, and as system capabilities grow the risks expand, arguing that frontier AI companies should operate with multiple layers of redundancy like nuclear power plants or airports, and treat alignment as a key unsolved problem.