Ex-DeepMind researcher: preventing AI extinction risk 'was literally my day job'
EvanHub · x · 2026-09-09
TurnTrout confirms he left Google DeepMind in June, saying many researchers genuinely believe they're building something that could kill everyone and that thinking about how to stop it "was literally my day job." The quoted post adds that executives express such fears privately while softening their public phrasing.
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