What David Robinson has said about Codex (OpenAI)
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 7, 2026
David Robinson, Former OpenAI safety-team writer who led system card documentation; Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate and founder of the civil rights nonprofit Upturn, has been quoted on Codex (OpenAI) once in 1 episode of The Ezra Klein Show, most recently on October 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Robinson reports that OpenAI research teams' use of agentic compute had grown more than a hundredfold during the year.
“I mean, more than 100 times more than they did at the beginning of the year”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 44:03
Episodes
‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Ezra Klein interviews former OpenAI safety writer David Robinson about why he quit, arguing the AI industry lacks the safety culture its increasingly dangerous models demand.
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