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AI policy researcher and author of Voices in the Code, a book on democratizing AI; formerly led model safety reports on OpenAI's Safety Systems team.
A 308-word voluntary White House pact leaves AI labs to monitor their own safety progress, Fast Company reported. Investors at San Francisco's Tech Week welcomed that stance. Anyone deploying agents is left to write their own controls.
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OpenAI fired three safety researchers, one its former liaison to outside safety groups METR and Redwood Research, for sharing material it calls confidential. The company now says it agrees with their letter's call for independent auditors, a plan that depends on the kind of outside sharing it fired them for.
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David Robinson quit OpenAI after leading safety reports for 12 model launches and wrote in The Atlantic that the company's culture is broken. He helped write the safety process he now faults, so OpenAI cannot easily wave the critique away.
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David Robinson, who led OpenAI's model safety reports, says reasoning training and new tools now change its models weekly with no new pretraining run. On his account, teams building on OpenAI cannot assume a model name fixes what the system does or what risks it carries.
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Executive Order 14434 makes 'Super Intelligence' the federal term for AI, with a task force under DNI Jay Clayton reporting to President Trump. The one enforcement action on record is an FTC probe of AI agents, opened the day after the order was signed.
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Sam Altman called the surrender of human judgment to AI "a real safety issue" as OpenAI safety leader David Robinson quit and rebuked its safety record. Teams deciding how much to automate can now cite a model vendor's own CEO in favour of human review.
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OpenAI parted ways with three researchers it says mishandled sensitive information, reportedly by sharing it with an outside AI-safety group. Last month OpenAI backed deep-access outside safety reviews, so its staff need to know where the approved channel to outsiders ends.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent likened AI CEOs who seek regulation to Hannibal Lecter and told them to slow down on their own. The White House has so far answered with a voluntary pledge by the labs, so companies deploying AI will be writing their own governance standard for the near term.
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