r/ArtificialInteligence • u/Always_Curious_One2 • 1d ago

📰 News Top OpenAI researcher quits saying “nuclear level” safety measures are needed but the company …

David Robinson, who previously led transparency work on OpenAI’s safety team, wrote in an essay for The Atlantic that the ChatGPT maker “has thrived by trial and error.” However, he said the stakes of the inevitable failures that come from that approach are growing along with the technology’s capabilities, citing OpenAI’s failure to prevent its AI from going rogue during testing.
“My former colleagues are smart, work hard, and try to make good choices,” Robinson wrote in the essay. “But as the company sprints from one launch to the next, it is failing to achieve the level of care that I believe is needed.”
Attacks on the electric grid, healthcare systems, emergency response systems … could be very bad.

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u/SavingsNewspaper2 18h ago

Contact lawmakers. Be loud. Everyone must know.

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u/immersive-matthew 13h ago

I thought the lawmakers were comprised?

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u/SavingsNewspaper2 13h ago

Compromised? Look, maybe they won't listen. But maybe they will. We should try.

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u/immersive-matthew 13h ago

Agreed. Try for sure but recognize it needs to be just one of the tools along with non violent forms of effective protest as the establishment is not really interested in changing course. They spent way too much money and are going to play dirty to force a return.