Safety · 2026-10-03

OpenAI's head of safety resigns and warns that company culture is “broken”

The person in charge of safety at OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has left the position and said the company's internal culture is in trouble.

✨ What happened

The head of safety at OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has left his position. The Guardian reported this.

In leaving, he warned that the company's culture is, in his view, “broken”. In other words, there are serious problems with how the company treats safety issues and the work on them.

📌 Why it matters

Safety teams are responsible for making sure new AI systems do not harm people. When their head leaves with such criticism, it draws attention to how much companies really care about safety, rather than only about rapidly developing products.

The headline does not give details about what led to his decision. To learn more, it is worth reading the full article in The Guardian.

Sources: 🔗 Google News