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AI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.
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.
AI Verified (Sep 11, 2026)
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Alex Turner, quoted in Morgane Tual, “AI: Incidents and Anthropic researcher's resignation push 'AIpocalypse' debate to new heights,” Le Monde, September 11, 2026.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified Saying AI could kill everyone on the planet directly supports an existential-threat stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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AI Verified Quote says AI could kill everyone on the planet, matching the recorded existential-threat support. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Le Monde’s cited article attributes the exact two sentences to Alex Turner. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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