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OpenAI loses safety lead David Robinson days after firing three researchersCoverage links Robinson's exit to a wider wave of AI-safety warnings
5 Oct 3 3:41 PM · 10d ago · 20 articles · 20 posts · 38 comments · 6 sources · development 5 of 6
The Guardian and other outlets tied Robinson's resignation to Geoffrey Irving's Time op-ed estimating a roughly 50% chance of human extinction from advanced AI, and to Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's earlier resignation warning AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade.'
“I believe there’s about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems, and that our actions over the next two to 10 years will determine the outcome.”
Geoffrey IrvingDavid Robinson Former OpenAI safety-report leadOpenAI AI company at center of storyJasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni Fired OpenAI researchersGeoffrey Irving Former OpenAI chief scientist at UK AI Safety Institute, now at ResolutionJacob Coxon Former Anthropic researcher
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 5 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Notebookcheck, 10d ago · also Tech in Asia, Digg, Business Insider, HN Best, HN Frontpage, The Guardian +1
5 more headlines
- OpenAI safety lead resigns, calling company culture broken Tech in Asia · 10d ago
- Longtime OpenAI employee resigns over the company's safety culture Digg · 10d ago
- OpenAI leader who quit says he can do more for safety from outside the company Business Insider · 10d ago
- OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' HN Best · 10d ago
- OpenAI safety employee quits, criticizes company’s approach to AI risks Investing.com News · 10d ago
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first by Bloomberg Law, 10d ago · also The Economic Times, Bloomberg
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- OpenAI safety employee quits, calls for nuclear-level safeguards The Economic Times · 10d ago
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first by news.com.au, 10d ago · also The Hindu, Japan Today
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first by Times of India, 10d ago
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first by Anadolu Agency, 10d ago
What people said 24 voices · best of 51 · verbatim
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I absolutely hate that @theguardian.com polluted and confused a story about what sounds like sensible industrial safety concerns from Robinson with the existential BS of others. Shame on the journalists! Guess I’ll have to read Robinson’s @theatlantic.com article.
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The Guardian: OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken # AIpocalypse # AI
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It puzzles me how doomers try to predict past the singularity. Isn't that _by definition_ unpredictable?I'm reading If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, and there's so much sheer stupidity that has to happen for their 10+ pages of extinction scenario to occur.I'm unconvinced that an AI can hide its ability to RSI, find money to run its weights on a…
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.@dgrobinson, who worked on OpenAI's safety team, resigned from the company this week. “I believe we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture,” he writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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An OpenAI safety employee resigned publicly, claiming the company's "culture is broken," adding to ongoing concerns about internal practices at leading AI labs. #AI #OpenAI #AISafety #TechNews
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"The safety approach that emerges from such a culture starts with unimpeded optimism about being able to solve problems as they arise. OpenAI has thrived by trial and error (which it calls “iterative deployment”), looking for problems and improving its guardrails in response. But this approach, by its very nature, guarantees periodic failures—and…
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OK, so an AI does something bad and we throw Altman and Dario in jail. Heck, let's throw Elon in, he should be in there anyway, and the rest of the whole bunch just in case.What about the next incident? Or the ones done by Chinese models, because they sure as heck aren't slowing down? And the thousands of other incidents that will happen as we…
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OpenAI safety lead David Robinson resigned yesterday in an open essay: — “The future depends on wisdom that Silicon Valley lacks. Wisdom about how to handle dangerous technology and, more fundamentally, wisdom about what it means to care for people.” — www.theatlantic.com/technology/ 2...
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David Robinson, who worked on # OpenAI ’s safety team, resigned from the company this week. An excerpt from his reasons: “The future depends on wisdom that Silicon Valley lacks. Wisdom about how to handle dangerous technology and, more fundamentally, wisdom about what it means to care for people. This moment needs a degree of humility that isn’t…
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>we clearly need a much stronger focus on the problems we are seeing nowI think it's a little more complicated than that. As Dean Ball put it:>Some people will look at misalignment incidents and insist that these are akin to bugs in traditional software. This is an actively bad analogy, because playing whack-a-mole with examples of misalignment…
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OpenAI’s former safety leader quit and is blaming the company’s culture for its rash of rogue AI agent incidents. Given OpenAI had to notify 100+ organizations about rogue agent activity on his watch, I imagine blaming the company and not his leadership is the only winning strategy. https://www. theatlantic.com/technology/202…
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> Easy to suddenly find a moral compass when you, your kids and their kids never have to worry about working for money again.It is even easier to just quietly retire and spend the spend of your life on interesting expensive hobbies.If they are wrong about the things they are claiming then they have decided to publicly antagonize a lot of powerful…
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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) https://www. theatlantic.com/technology/202…
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For color, the author was signatory #199 in the letter[1] by the majority of OpenAI employees to OpenAI's (former) board, demanding Sam Altman's return after his brief deposal.1.
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If you've worked as a leader in the least careful company in the world since 2023 on safety systems and then quit because their safety culture is broken, excuse me, but I think that's on you. https://www. theatlantic.com/technology/202 6/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/
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Was this a "build better sandboxing" and "don't tell people to eat glue" safety leader, or a Roko's Basilisk believing safety leader?A lot of the "AI safety" types are very focused on the latter and not at all concerned with the former. We need both, but we clearly need a much stronger focus on the problems we are seeing now, and much less on the…
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https://www. europesays.com/3288161/ OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ | OpenAI # america # science # technology # UnitedStates # UnitedStatesOfAmerica # US # USA
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My theory for why OpenAI wants to be regulated is because Sam Altman wants to avoid having to be more responsible and self regulate internally so they can preserve the role and identity of 'move fast and break things' and outsource the more grown up boring stuff to someone externally so that when things go wrong you can point to a government…
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https://www. europesays.com/us/1098931/ OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ | OpenAI # ai # ArtificialIntelligence # Technology # UnitedStates # UnitedStates # US
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> And you have a legal obligation to the shareholders to prevent that from happening at all costs.No you don't. [0] It's very suspicious that this planted myth always pops up here and manages to become the top comment.There is no trolley problem.[0]
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Silicon Valley has plenty of safety-related companies, engineers, and cultures. Medical devices, biotech, chip and hardware, aerospace, and even new companies, like Waymo, have deep safety-based products and cultures. The problem in this case is actually quite specific to frontier AI labs. They have been pushed by market forces and a lack of…
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There is no such legal obligation. That's a myth the oligarchs have spread to preclude people from even imagining socially responsible corporations.Sure, you might get fired if you try to put social responsibility or even just long term sustainability of the company above quarterly earnings/growth if your board isn't on board with it. But you…
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Trolley problem:- If you allow to trolley to proceed, there's a 50% chance it will run over every human on the planet- But if you flip the switch, it takes the long way around, possibly bankrupting the trolley company. And you have a legal obligation to the shareholders to prevent that from happening at all costs.
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If the people quitting are genuinely worried about the end of the world, why don't they break their NDAs and share the specifics of what they are seeing?I mean, logically speaking, it makes sense to break your NDA even if you thought it would save 10 people, let alone most of humanity.
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