AI safety researcher Krueger blasts Dean Ball for downplaying AI risk

DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-02

Cambridge AI safety researcher David Krueger accuses Dean Ball of admitting he downplayed AI dangers for years to gain influence and avoid being called a doomer, calling it a shameful lack of integrity — another skirmish in the AI safety discourse wars.

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