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Geoffrey Irving
Cofounder and chief scientist of the AI nonprofit Resolution, previously at OpenAI and Google DeepMind, who puts the chance of human extinction at about a coin flip and says the risk is ramping up fast.
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- Sept 2026 – presentCofounder and Chief Scientist, ResolutionStart date not sourced; the earliest attestation read for this entry is frominside.ai, which prints the title, and Reuters of 29 September 2026, which calls Resolution an AI nonprofit and reports that he has worked for both OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Neither source dates those two earlier posts, so they are recorded here and not given as roles of their own.Source →
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29 Sept 2026 · Interview · Reuters
The risk is ramping up pretty fast
Cofounder and Chief Scientist, Resolution at the time
Said in an interview with Reuters, where he added that it is on him and the rest of the field to be direct. Cited from the Reuters wire copy carried by Yahoo News, byline Deepa Seetharaman; reuters.com cannot be read by the register's source fetcher.
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29 Sept 2026 · Interview · frominside.ai
The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view, about a half.
Cofounder and Chief Scientist, Resolution at the time
From his filmed interview for frominside.ai, a Palisade Research project of interviews with current and former frontier-lab employees, at 2:56. Date is the day the project was published and Reuters reported it; the day of filming is not stated.