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David Robinson Former OpenAI safety-report lead OpenAI AI company at center of story Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni Fired OpenAI researchers Geoffrey Irving Former OpenAI chief scientist at UK AI Safety Institute, now at Resolution Jacob Coxon Former Anthropic researcher
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OpenAI fired three employees for sharing information with a third-party AI-safety organization. One of the employees was on the company’s safety team and acted as the technical contact for Redwood Research and METR’s investigation of the Hugging Face incident. The other two worked on alignment. # ArtificialIntelligence https://www…
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OpenAI's David Robinson has resigned, BI can confirm. He led safety transparency at the company, working on system cards, and left last week. The news comes alongside OpenAI firing three researchers over allegedly mishandling information. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
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🚨SCOOP: OpenAI's former Head of Policy Planning and key Safety Systems leader David Robinson (@dgrobinson) has QUIT Hours after Altman & co purged 3 safety researchers for ‘allegedly leaking sensitive data to an outside safety group’
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My contemporary and friend @dgrobinson has left OpenAI. He's written a thoughtful piece on the effects of culture on AI Safety. 💜
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