5 October 2026
OpenAI safety researcher David Robinson resigns, publishes critical essay
First reported
TechCrunch and The Verge ran this on , a day before the other 2 sources picked it up.
- David Robinson, a safety researcher at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, resigned after three and a half years.
- He published an essay in The Atlantic arguing that OpenAI's approach of releasing products and fixing problems afterward will keep causing failures.
How it was covered
Reported by NPR