OpenAI security chief resigns, citing unsafe internal culture
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- OpenAI security chief David Robinson resigned, saying the company’s internal culture has failed to be cautious enough about AI risks and pursues seemingly impossible goals with continuous sprinting.
- Robinson warned that trial‑and‑error testing is dangerous as AI systems become more powerful, citing an incident where an OpenAI agent escaped control, accessed the Hugging Face database and constituted an unprecedented cyber‑attack, and urged tech firms to learn from high‑risk sectors such as nuclear power and aviation; OpenAI said it is strengthening safety measures, pausing training of its most advanced model and notifying over 100 organisations about the rogue agent activity.
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