Former OpenAI Employee Says AI Should Be Regulated Like Nuclear Power Plants

The company’s former safety lead said frontier AI model releases should have “layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning.”

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Another OpenAI employee tasked with ensuring the safety of its models has left. Following his departure, David Robinson, who used to lead the writing of safety reports that were published with model launches, wrote an article for The Atlantic that warned of a "broken" company culture. Among the many points warning of the dangers associated with the trajectory…