A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology.

David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer’s product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”…

“Imagine ‘rogue’ agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep,” wrote Robinson…

Source [2026-10-03]

  • James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    4 days ago

    no see this LLM, yes the one that just sits there doing nothing until someone types a prompt into it’s algorithm, is going to kill us all for reasons

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      4 days ago

      Do you really not know about agents? It’s an LLM that can put its generated text in the bash, and read the output. It generates such commands at the speed it can output tokens. If whoever starts it gives it access to things like the hosts browser cookies, passwords, emails, files, programs, and the internet, there is a lot they can do, and very quickly.