Comment by Tim Marple

Co-director of Maiden Labs (AI risk research nonprofit); former OpenAI safety staff in the threat-identification division
The events around Tumbler Ridge are as clear as possible a demonstration of the moral hazard that comes with centralizing authority over safety at a place like OpenAI.
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AI Verified Verified. Although the NPR URL itself was not directly fetchable, multiple reliable NPR syndications of the same story (story ID nx-s1-5798896, by Geoff Brumfiel, published April 29, 2026) — including OPB, KPBS, and NCPR — contain the exact sentence and attribute it to Tim Marple: “The events around Tumbler Ridge are ‘as clear as possible a demonstration of the moral hazard that comes with centralizing authority over safety at a place like OpenAI,’ said Tim Marple.” · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Tim Marple in an NPR article about the lawsuit filed by Tumbler Ridge mass shooting families against OpenAI (April 29, 2026). The NPR URL returned 403 to WebFetch but multiple NPR affiliate stations (OPB, WMRA, KSUT, WUGA, WSIU, WLRN, NPR Illinois, KPBS) syndicated the article confirming Marple's exact quote about "moral hazard that comes with centralizing authority over safety at a place like OpenAI." Vote "for" the statement "Establish an international AI incident reporting system" aligns well - Marple explicitly advocates for "regulation, including mandatory reporting laws" to prevent OpenAI's failure to report dangerous user conversations from recurring. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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