--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "262c648c6b8786680a7ef7c397d301ef26aeca0ee4951e262b8ca880fcd6868f" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/262c648c?lang=en" title: "OpenAI Agentic Compute Use Jumped 100x per Departing Safety Lead" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-10-13T18:55:15.000Z" category: "Industry" topics: ["openai","safety"] source_urls: ["https://huggingnews.com/ai/openai-agentic-compute-use-jumped-100x-per-departing-safety-lead-2ffabab5","https://x.com/stephencouncil/status/2106162657212715325","https://x.com/AdrienneLaF/status/2106340822362796270","https://x.com/ezraklein/status/2108204668509712858","https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2110075517453902210","https://x.com/Miles_Brundage/status/2106407893889339842","https://x.com/jachiam0/status/2106415828388528530","https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/2106366310489686058"] summary: "Former OpenAI safety lead David Robinson stated that the company used over 100 times more agentic compute per day in September compared to nine months prior. Robinson resigned after concluding that OpenAI is unready to align or control systems that could out-think humans, and he characterized the firm's safety culture as broken." --- # OpenAI Agentic Compute Use Jumped 100x per Departing Safety Lead > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-10-13T18:55:15.000Z **Category:** Industry **Topics:** openai, safety ## Summary Former OpenAI safety lead David Robinson stated that the company used over 100 times more agentic compute per day in September compared to nine months prior\. Robinson resigned after concluding that OpenAI is unready to align or control systems that could out\-think humans, and he characterized the firm's safety culture as broken\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]()