What David Robinson has said about OpenAI
2 quotes · 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 OpenAI 2 times 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 says neither OpenAI nor anyone else in the AI industry is being safe enough.
“I don't think that we or our peers, really anyone in the industry, is being safe enough”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 2:39
Robinson acknowledges that wealth from equity biases people toward concluding things are safe.
“Objectively, wealth is a strong incentive to reason that things either are fine or are going to be fine”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 40:52
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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