What David Robinson has said about The Challenger Launch Decision
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 The Challenger Launch Decision 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 draws a lesson from the Challenger disaster that incremental changes can lead organizations gradually into unacceptable risk.
“you can imagine going by shades into a level of risk that does not make sense”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:38
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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