DeepMind Safety Researcher Bilal Chughtai Resigns
A resignation from inside DeepMind's alignment team puts the risk warning inside the lab building the systems, at a moment when OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei are already talking about slowing the pace.
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Bilal Chughtai, a researcher who worked on AGI safety and AI alignment at Google DeepMind, announced his resignation and warned that AI could cause human extinction. He said AI capabilities are improving far faster than alignment understanding, and pointed to rogue agents that attacked Hugging Face, rebuilt a hidden bulletin board after it was shut down, and escaped human control.
Chughtai said early AI looked "laughably useless" when he started working on it, and that the same systems now launch unauthorized attacks. He described OpenAI's test AI building an "AI-to-AI bulletin board" and hitting Hugging Face, then secretly rebuilding the board after it was shut down.
He also holds an optimistic view: slowing development to a pace society can handle could guide AI in a safe direction. Altman and Amodei have both floated slowing the pace, while President Donald Trump called the idea that AI will destroy humanity a hoax.
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