Google engineer quits over AI chip work, saying AI is moving too fast
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-25
rocallahan announced his resignation from Google: his GDM team was building a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, but he believes AI is already progressing too fast, so he had to quit.
The move drew sharp pushback — reshared criticism called such doomers attention-seekers who are "sandbagging" tech that could save leukemia patients. The episode exposes the real schism between accelerationists and decelerationists inside the AI world, this time via a resignation.
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