Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
13 October 2026
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Committee House of Commons
00:03 - 00:39
Speaker 4
Order, order, welcome to today's session of the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee inquiry into AI safety and governance. We are incredibly grateful to you our witnesses for joining us here in the House of Commons today and for joining us at what I know is a very early hour on the West Coast. So thank you very much on behalf of the UK Parliament for coming and giving evidence to us. Daniel, I'm going to start with you if I may. Could you just tell us why did you resign from OpenAI?
00:39 - 01:44
Speaker 5
So OpenAI and Anthropic and some of these other companies are trying to build superintelligence, which means AI systems that are better than the best humans at everything while also being faster and cheaper. If you really internalize that and think about the implications of for the world if they succeed or even if they get anywhere close to succeeding, it's truly, well, there's so many implications, we can get into that later. But for years these companies have been saying, yes, this would be incredibly transformative, yes, it could go really badly, but it could also go really well. That's why we need to be the ones doing it because we are the good guys, we know how to make it, you know, go better than those other bad guys out there who might do it less responsibly than us. Basically, I left OpenAI because I came to believe that OpenAI in fact would not behave responsibly around the creation of this technology and that OpenAI was rationalizing why they needed to be in the lead and why they needed to build this as fast as possible.
01:44 - 01:48
Speaker 2
So basically I lost confidence in the leadership.
01:48 - 01:56
Speaker 4
I just want to make sure we've captured that correctly, Daniel. So you said OpenAI would not behave responsibly. That was your belief.
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