It is understood that David Robinson left OpenAI last week. At OpenAI, he leads the security system team and is responsible for AI security issues. It’s another blow to the company’s security systems, which recently fired three OpenAI employees for transmitting secret messages to third-party companies.
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Robinson works on security transparency at OpenAI. In particular, he participated in the development and release of information cards (system cards) that provide information about their AI models. Robinson previously led policy planning for the company.
OpenAI came into the public eye after a series of high-profile incidents related to securing artificial intelligence models, including the sensational Hugging Face platform hack. This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei plan to hold a hearing in the Australian Senate on the case of OpenAI artificial intelligence agents hacking into Australian and US government websites.
Due to the Hugging Face hacking incident and ignoring the risks of using autonomous AI, OpenAI was sued, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a large-scale audit of AI companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.
In early September, Robinson expressed the view on social network X that OpenAI employees are beginning to understand the consequences of implementing high-performance AI models. He noted that the company’s situation is changing rapidly every day and expressed doubts about whether the team can react quickly enough to these changes.
He also left OpenAI after the departure of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned Anthropic and OpenAI “We are rapidly moving towards creating self-improving superintelligence and putting our lives at risk.”
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