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A glass office hallway in dim light with a silhouetted figure walking away from a glowing doorway, symbolizing a safety leader's departure from OpenAI

OpenAI Safety Employee Quits, Says 'Time for Trial and Error Is Over'

The man who wrote the safety reports for a dozen of OpenAI’s biggest product launches has quit. And he’s not leaving quietly. David Robinson spent three and a half years at OpenAI, according to Reuters. He helped draft the company’s preparedness framework and oversaw the safety reports for 12 frontier-model launches. Then on Saturday, October 3, he resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic titled “I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken.” ...

October 4, 2026 · 5 min · 971 words ·