Nuclear power regulation
Subject in Government
Nuclear power regulation has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Ezra Klein Show. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
David RobinsonFormer OpenAI safety-team writer who led system card documentation; Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate and founder of the civil rights nonprofit Upturn
Robinson says society should be willing to risk over-regulating AI to ensure safety.
“we really ought to be willing to risk some over-regulation in order to make sure that this is safe”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 59:46
Robinson calls for AI safety rigor at least matching nuclear power operations.
“I think we should have a level of operational rigor and safety control that at least matches the most dangerous other things that people know how to do, like nuclear”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 57:36
Ezra KleinNew York Times Opinion columnist and host of The Ezra Klein Show (diarization also merged one PopCast promo line into this label)
Klein argues that the U.S. over-regulated nuclear power to the point that it largely stopped being built.
“We so aggressively regulated nuclear power, in my view, over-regulated nuclear power, that nuclear power broadly stopped being built in this country”
The Ezra Klein Show: ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 58:14
Podcasts
- The Ezra Klein Show · 1 episode
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.