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Alex Turner

AI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.

There are many actions we can take which would not slow us down in any potential race: transparency mechanisms, independent evaluation, reporting requirements, whistleblower protections.

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ChinaTechNews.com, “Ex-OpenAI researcher tells NYC lawmakers AI safety fixes may be ‘duct tape that will fall off’,” October 6, 2026. It reports Alex Turner’s NYC Council testimony: “There are many actions we can take which would not slow us down in any potential race: transparency mechanisms, independent evaluation, reporting requirements, whistleblower protections.”

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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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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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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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