A tired person carries a small box out of a plain lab building with a crack above its roof, while a judge brings a gavel down beside a video screen marked with a large X, a torn paper falling from it. A caption reads TOO LATE.

Nobody's Policing Anybody

A safety worker resigned from a top AI lab and called its culture broken. A court overturned a sentence after ruling that an AI-made video should not have been shown.

#4 · 4 October 2026

News of 3 October 2026

Relevant sources

An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm The Verge
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’ TechCrunch
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' theguardian.com · via Hacker News
David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic) Techmeme · via Techmeme
US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court bbc.com · via Hacker News

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