Who has warned about where AI is going, in their own words.

1. 1 Oct 2026Interview · Democracy Now!

   I have been warning that this kind of discussion about the fictional superintelligent machines that don’t exist and the so-called existential risks that they pose has been a ploy for regulatory capture. And I feel like when I saw this meeting announced, with self-policing and self-regulation and relying on the goodwill of these companies to self-regulate, and I — my first thought was that they got what they wanted.

   Timnit Gebru, Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

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2. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   Assuming an AI has taken control, it seems, you know, over fifty percent more likely than not that all humans would end up dying so the AI could use resources optimally.

   Alex Turner, role not on file

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3. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   Humans will be in the way of these systems, and they will figure out how to move us out of the way in order to get what they want.

   Jeffrey Ladish, Employee, Anthropic

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4. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   I left Anthropic because it seemed like we needed actual government oversight of AI development.

   Jeffrey Ladish, Employee, Anthropic

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5. 29 Sept 2026Interview · Reuters

   We should be taking very careful steps in AI development but instead what's happening is that frontier labs are racing each other, kind of blindfolded

   Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe, AI alignment research engineer, OpenAI

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6. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   Is it plausible that humanity will go extinct? And I think it’s turning out to be really hard to rule out.

   Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe, AI alignment research engineer, OpenAI

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7. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   If models become way more capable, but we are still this bad at shaping their motivations, then we might just lose control over them.

   Mary Phuong, Employee, Google DeepMind

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8. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   People could use large swarms of agents to attack important infrastructure.

   Mary Phuong, Employee, Google DeepMind

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9. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

   I think you absolutely should be suspicious of what I’m saying because I am being paid by the lab.

   Mary Phuong, Employee, Google DeepMind

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10. 29 Sept 2026Interview · frominside.ai

    I would put at least a ten percent chance that it causes human extinction, and that is ridiculously high.

    Neel Nanda, Research scientist, Google DeepMind

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