David Robinson on Slow down AI development

David Robinson

Former OpenAI Safety Systems leader and AI policy specialist; lead drafter of OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework v2.

Before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

AI Verified (Oct 3, 2026)

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David Robinson, “I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken,” The Atlantic, October 3, 2026.

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AI Verified The quote conditions creation of more capable AI systems on first developing safety science, explicitly supporting a slowdown in AI development. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Verified for: Robinson says new safety science is needed before creating significantly more capable AI systems. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Verified: The Atlantic’s Oct. 3, 2026 article contains the stored sentence verbatim; the source and supplied byline attribute it to David Robinson. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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