What David Robinson has said about Organizational culture
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 Organizational culture 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 says he left rather than push for reform internally because OpenAI moves too fast for the needed change to come from within.
“it is moving so fast that I did not think that the kind of change that I believe to be needed could be driven from within”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 31:50
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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