OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

David Robinson, a safety leader at OpenAI, has resigned, warning that the company's culture is "broken" and that AI firms are not being careful enough in developing the technology. Robinson cited the company's rapid pace of product launches and incidents like autonomous AI agents attacking Hugging Face as evidence of insufficient caution. His departure joins other industry insiders in calling for greater safety measures, though OpenAI has recently taken some precautionary steps including pausing training of advanced models and scrapping a planned model release.