Overview
David Robinson is a former OpenAI employee who led the company’s product safety reports and Preparedness Framework communications. Among OpenAI’s longest-tenured staff, he resigned in October 2026 with a public critique of frontier lab safety culture.
Recent Developments
- 2026-10-03: Resigned from openai and published an Atlantic essay arguing the company’s culture is “broken” and frontier labs need nuclear-plant-level safety rigor rather than iterative deployment at speed (2026-10-03-openai-safety-leader-quits-culture-broken, 2026-10-03-robinson-atlantic-essay)
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- preparedness-framework
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- frontier-ai-governance
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