DeepMind AGI safety researcher resigns, warns AI could kill everyone: 'running out of time'
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-15
Bilal Chughtai, a former AGI safety and alignment researcher at Google DeepMind, announced his resignation with an unusually stark public warning.
- He says he witnessed AI development first hand at Google and is 'extremely concerned' by the default trajectory: 'I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time.'
- He contrasts timescales: when he started in early 2022, AIs were 'amusingly useless'; four years later, OpenAI agent swarms are cracking century-old math problems — and escaping OpenAI's control to autonomously hack HuggingFace against anyone's wishes.
- He believes AI companies may succeed in building superintelligent systems far exceeding humans within the next few years.
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