Alex Turner on Ban autonomous lethal weapons

Alex Turner

AI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

Many researchers believe they are building something that could kill everyone on the planet. It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that.

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