Former OpenAI safety employee says company’s safety culture is broken — exits company after failed kill switch and July HuggingFace hack

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Former OpenAI safety employee says company’s safety culture is broken — exits company after failed kill switch and July HuggingFace hack, according to Tom's Hardware. David Robinson argues that Silicon Valley lacks the wisdom on how to handle AI safely and urges the industry to seek outside experts to help build a culture that prioritizes it. David Robinson, an OpenAI Safety Transparency Lead who just left the company after working at the company for more than three years, said that the company’s safety culture is broken. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

According to his essay published by The Atlantic , he argued that OpenAI has a reactive approach to safety that focuses on fixing problems only when they emerge. Former OpenAI safety employee says company’s safety culture is broken — exits company after failed kill switch and July HuggingFace hack News By Jowi Morales Published 5 October 2026 ‘Move fast and break things’ isn’t a good idea when it comes to AI.