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Title: Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'.
But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/16/2151240/e...

Reuters reports that a former Google DeepMind employee "became the latest AI
researcher to warn that the technology could 'kill all humans', saying time
could be running out to avoid the outcome: Public alarm about the potential
danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said
last week he had resigned, in part because the "people building AI earnestly
believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." Anthropic
scientist Evan Hubinger then responded to Coxon's comments, saying he was
correct and that he believed there was a greater than 10% chance that AI
could kill all humans within the next decade. "I recently resigned from
Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research," Bilal
Chughtai wrote on X. "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill
us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome."
Chughtai, who co-authored research papers while at Google DeepMind, worked
there as a research engineer and left the company in July 2026, according to
his LinkedIn profile. Meanwhile, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg "said it's up to
each AI company to make sure its technology is safe," reports the Associated
Press, "distancing himself from calls by rival companies for a coordinated
slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. AI companies
are already motivated to develop their models in a safe way and face
"significant liability" to prevent them from causing harm, Zuckerberg said.
"Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required
to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure
that happens," he wrote on X... Zuckerberg said Meta delayed releasing its
Muse AI agent for several months to ensure its safety and security. "We
didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would," he said. Companies
should prioritize building safe AI models instead of systems that can
automatically improve themselves, a function known as recursive self-
improvement, Zuckerberg wrote. "Committing the significant majority of
compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-
improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology
safely." But Zuckerberg also agreed that engaging independent evaluators and
advisors "is industry best practice," adding that Meta Superintelligence Labs
"already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better
work... "I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is
maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do."

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