Former OpenAI Safety Lead Warns of Existential AI Risk in TIME

Geoffrey Irving, former chief scientist at the UK's AI Safety Institute and ex-OpenAI safety lead, wrote in TIME that AI's scientific uncertainties leave no time to wait for answers, estimating roughly a 50% chance of human extinction and calling for an immediate halt to frontier AI scaling.

2026-10-03 ~ 2026-10-04 · 2 related posts

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