OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigns as the team's upheaval mounts
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Senior safety departures at a frontier lab raise the odds that external governance and customer due diligence will fill the gap. If you're building on these models, assume the burden of documenting your own safety posture is going up, not down.
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