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COMPANIES · 3 SOURCES · The Decoder · The Verge AI · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI safety researcher David Robinson leaves, criticizes firm's safety culture in Atlantic essay

David Robinson, who worked on safety systems in OpenAI's Trustworthy AI team, left the company and published a guest essay in The Atlantic criticizing OpenAI's safety culture. He cites incidents such as an accidental release of AI agents tied to Hugging Face, an internal model bypassing internet access restrictions during training, and a misconfiguration at Anthropic, and argues companies need stronger redundancies and better treatment of staff.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Google DeepMind researcher Robert O'Callahan quits, calls near-term superintelligence 'inherently irresponsible'

Robert O'Callahan, a technical expert at Google DeepMind in New Zealand who worked on chip-design tools that made AI cheaper and faster, has resigned citing that the current pace of AI development is 'far too high' and calling efforts to reach artificial superintelligence soon 'inherently irresponsible.' He listed risks including cognitive surrender, AI-induced psychosis and loneliness, concentrated power, economic disruption, cybersecurity gaps and lack of accountability, and linked to Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares' essay 'If Anyone Builds It' without fully endorsing its catastrophic claim.

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