A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not "being nearly careful enough" about developing the technology.

David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer's product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"...

"Imagine 'rogue' agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep," wrote Robinson...

Source [2026-10-03]

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[–] 12 points 14 hours ago

i think the biggest problem here is that "smarter than human AI" is already here, not because AI is so good, but because it's very easy to be "smarter than human". Clearly we're too stupid to stop building the "50% chance to kill us all" machine. Even if it can't kill us, and I don't believe it can, it's still doing actual irreparable harm to the entire world and we can't seem to get it together enough to stop them. There's no need to drink the kool aid because you don't have to believe it's smart to believe we're too stupid to be trusted with it.

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