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OpenAI's safety-report lead David Robinson quits, calling the company's culture 'broken'
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David Robinson, who led the writing of the safety reports that accompany OpenAI's major launches over roughly three and a half years, resigned on October 3 with an essay in The Atlantic arguing the lab runs safety by trial and error rather than with the layered redundancy of nuclear plants or…
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