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David Robinson

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

This is no substitute for hard law, and it does give a lot of freedom to the companies. The time between model generations is measured in weeks [...] and I think we have some very serious safety challenges in front of us in the nearer term.

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David Robinson, former OpenAI safety-team leader, quoted by Garance Burke, “In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety,” Associated Press, October 11, 2026.

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Disputed AP’s article is dated Oct. 10, 2026, not the stored Oct. 11; its text attributes the wording to Robinson. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago

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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.

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