An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm

David Robinson, who worked on safety reports for major OpenAI model releases, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic raising concerns about the company and the broader AI sector. He argues the problem is not just a lack of rules, but a broken culture around developing and releasing powerful models.

The resignation adds to a pattern of AI insiders publicly warning that leading labs are moving faster than their safety practices can support. It suggests pressure for governance reforms will increasingly come not only from regulators, but from employees with direct experience inside frontier AI companies.