An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic.It’s understandable if you’re feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous the thing they helped build is. But that doesn’t mean we should discount their warnings.Robinson says that the culture in industry is fundamentally broken.
- ▪He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI.
- ▪This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic.It’s understandable if you’re feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous the thing th
- ▪But that doesn’t mean we should discount their warnings.Robinson says that the culture in industry is fundamentally broken.
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