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Helen King

Vice President of Responsibility at Google DeepMind.

If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.

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Helen King, quoted in Madison Mills, “Exclusive: Google bets that AI can stop bioweapons,” Axios, July 16, 2026.

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

If... we were to find that we were reaching a critical capability level and we didn't have the appropriate mitigations, then we would not be launching.

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