AI giants not 'careful enough,' ex-OpenAI engineer warns

According to Business Standard, which carried a syndicated report, Robinson "has quit the company and warned that top artificial intelligence firms aren't doing enough to mitigate the technology's risks."[2]Business Standard reports that Robinson wrote in an essay for The Atlantic that the ChatGPT maker "has thrived by trial and error."[2] The outlet says he pointed to OpenAI's failure to prevent its AI from going rogue during testing[2].TechCrunch reports that Robinson said he led the writing of safety reports that accompanied OpenAI's major product launches[1]. The outlet adds that he called himself "among the longest-tenured employees at the company."[1]TechCrunch says Robinson argued that frontier AI labs should operate "like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning"[1].Brit Brief reports that Robinson warned superintelligent machines might one day "look at New York City or Chicago in the way you or I might view an ant hill"[3].TechCrunch reports that OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said in a statement: "we pause training or hold back models when we need to slow down"[1].According to Brit Brief, OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, said GPT-6.1 Astra would be held back because it "didn't quite meet" an "extremely high bar of safety and alignment"[3].Crypto Briefing reports that Robinson is reportedly working with Spitfire Strategies, a PR firm, to push for stronger AI safety regulation[4].