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An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm

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What happened

This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's understandable if you're feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous the thing they helped build is. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. They did, after all, make this mess.

Key facts

  • David Robinson used to write the safety โ€” reports: that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI

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