David Robinson, a safety leader at OpenAI, announced his resignation in his own essay on 3 October 2026, saying AI companies are not careful enough, as reported by The Guardian on 3 October and BBC News on 5 October 2026.
The resignation market resolves YES if a named safety, alignment or policy researcher at OpenAI, Anthropic or Google DeepMind publicly announces a resignation citing AI risk between 10 September and 9 October, reported by two of the Guardian, BBC, Financial Times or the Times. A departure reported without the person's own public statement does not count.
We found eight public warnings since March 2023. In each, staff or leaders at a leading AI lab said their own technology could cause a disaster or end humanity. We then checked whether, within 30 days, the UK government or Parliament, or the US federal government, took a formal step to hold back the building or release of the most powerful models.