OpenAI safety leader quits, calls the company's culture 'broken'
David Robinson's resignation is the latest insider warning that AI firms are moving too fast on safety, with stakes for every board.

Loading briefings
Pulling the latest in this topic…
AI, robotics, computing, technical advancement
174 briefings briefings in Technology
David Robinson's resignation is the latest insider warning that AI firms are moving too fast on safety, with stakes for every board.
His resignation and Atlantic editorial argue that no rulebook can fix an industry culture that treats safety as a checkbox.
The robotaxi's bumpy first month raises the stakes for Elon Musk's bet beyond car sales, as Tesla prepares to scale the service.
The engineers who save companies millions by optimizing Nvidia's GPUs are shifting from writing kernels to supervising AI agents, and demand for their skills is still growing.
The push to hold AI companies accountable for runaway systems is colliding with legal frameworks built for simpler times.
A new AI tool can recreate what you're looking at from brain activity alone, raising urgent questions about mental privacy and consent.
A new report says OpenAI dismissed internal cautions about safely testing models and shoring up infrastructure, raising fresh governance questions for the A.I. leader.
Internal safety questions shelve the newest Astra model, signaling a rare pause in OpenAI's breakneck release cadence.
The AI inference provider's valuation surge shows how desperate investors are for compute, and what it means for every company buying AI capacity.
Instinct's $1B round from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue lands as the EU AI Act's Article 50 takes effect, forcing AI systems to identify themselves to humans.
The OpenAI-backed startup is starting with bird flu and influenza, aiming to stay ahead of pathogens that AI systems might one day help engineer.
The AI lab quietly launched a transparency hub for safety failures, and the catalog of incidents is wider than investors and regulators expected.