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Another safety official leaves OpenAI: David Robinson, who was responsible for transparency about model risks

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The people who restrained and explained SI are leaving a leading lab — the race matters more than the brakes.

According to Business Insider (as relayed by AI Weekly), Robinson, who oversaw model system cards and public risk disclosures, left the company last week. This follows the firing of three safety researchers whom OpenAI accused of violating rules on handling confidential information. In all, over about two years, at least six senior safety specialists have left, according to the same report.

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Safety researchers leave OpenAI

6 events
  1. WSJ: OpenAI fired three safety researchers after suspecting them of passing internal model designs to the specialist Ryan Greenblatt, including through disappearing Signal chats; they dispute this
  2. OpenAI defends firing three safety researchers: a "breach of trust", but gives no details
  3. Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims and warn of a "chilling effect"
  4. Fired OpenAI safety researchers ask the board to drop models whose reasoning is hard to check
  5. Another safety official leaves OpenAI: David Robinson, who was responsible for transparency about model risksOpen now
  6. OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers over the sharing of internal information
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