Ex-OpenAI employee who quit in 2024: fears AI could cause human extinction are real
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-12
An employee who spent two years at OpenAI before resigning in 2024 publicly warns that fears of AI causing human extinction are real and deserve to be taken seriously — another safety warning from inside a frontier lab.
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