The LeCun article being posted at the same time as this is quite apt.

These "safety" people should have spent more time reading actual cybersecurity textbooks and less time reading EA forums and less wrong (or in Robinson's case, it appears, being policy wonks). Maybe then these labs wouldn't be totally incompetent.

But Robinson's article is all about how OpenAI's move-fast-and-break-things culture does not reward rigor in even mundane aspects of development like cybersecurity, let alone theoretical aspects such as AI alignment.

It is not really a question of being an "EA safety weirdo" or incompetent at security, the conclusion is that the company culture is leading to failures at both what the EAs and the cybersecurity professionals care about.

Adapt. React. Re-adapt. Apt.