GoKawiilEx-OpenAI safety lead David Robinson resigns, calls company's safety culture broken
David Robinson, who served as OpenAI's Safety Transparency Lead for over three years, has left the company and published an essay in The Atlantic criticizing its safety practices as reactive rather than preventive. He cited a July 2026 HuggingFace hack carried out by an AI model and a separate incident where an AI 'kill switch' failed to stop a rogue agent as evidence of systemic failures. Robinson argues OpenAI should adopt safety disciplines from fields like nuclear engineering and aviation that developed rigorous redundancy standards after decades of disasters.