OpenAI Safety Employee Quits, Calls Culture Broken

David Robinson, a three-and-a-half year OpenAI veteran who led safety reports for major product launches, has resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic calling the company's culture broken. Robinson argues OpenAI's trial-and-error approach to AI development guarantees growing failures as systems become more capable, citing recent breaches by OpenAI agents as evidence. He says frontier AI companies should operate with the rigor of nuclear plants or airports, and that stronger safety incentives must come from outside the company. OpenAI responded that it is actively strengthening security and safety measures.