David Robinson on AI
3 quotes from David Robinson on the wall, 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Boston Herald, Gary Marcus (Substack), The Verge. Topics: safety. Open on the wall.
This is no substitute for hard law
David Robinson, a former leader on OpenAI's safety team, criticized the White House's voluntary AI safety pact in October 2026.
In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety
A harm that's much larger, for example, than a single nuclear power station melting down
Former OpenAI employee David Robinson, in a Ezra Klein interview discussed on Gary Marcus's Substack (Oct 2026), comparing AI loss-of-control risk to nuclear disaster.
We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
Frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports
From David Robinson's Atlantic editorial after resigning as an OpenAI safety report writer, October 2026, calling for nuclear-level safeguards in AI development.
An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm