What David Robinson has said about Superintelligence
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 Superintelligence 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 describes frontier models as grown minds rather than engineered software.
“It is a thing we grew. We did not engineer it. We engineered the systems around it that grew it”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 25:22
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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