Alex Turner on AI poses an existential threat to human…

Alex Turner

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 · 1mo 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 · 1mo 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 · 1mo ago

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Slow down AI development

The solution as I see it is simple. We stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence.

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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 silenc...

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