Alex Turner

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AI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.

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Location: Berkeley, CA

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Slow down AI development
209 opinions

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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
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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 source (Sep 11, 2026)

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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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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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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
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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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