“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”.”
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’theguardian.com
Robinson’s resignation letter is blunt about the diagnosis: the culture is broken, and labs are not being nearly careful enough. He points past individual rules toward how the place decides what “careful” even means.
That is a stronger signal than another process memo. When the person who wrote the safety reports walks out naming culture, the disagreement is about incentives and habits, not a missing checkbox on a launch form.