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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[–] 10 points 14 hours ago

All the AI Models we have rely on physical hardware. So as long as a model can't replicate itself we can always take a sledgehammer to it or cut of power. Them needing increasing amounts of energy and hardware makes me doubt a Model will develop successful self replicating behaviour. It would also need to develop the ability to hide itself from the user of the hardware at the same time which I doubt is possible again because of its energy needs.

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