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Extinction riskFrontier labResearch scientist, Google DeepMind2 entries on the record
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Neel Nanda
Research scientist at Google DeepMind, who puts the chance that AI causes human extinction at at least ten percent — a figure he calls ridiculously high — and says he is worried that future models helpful to scientists will be helpful to bioterrorists too.
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- Sept 2026 – presentResearch scientist, Google DeepMindStart date not sourced; the earliest attestation read for this entry is Reuters of 29 September 2026, which describes him as a research scientist at DeepMind, and frominside.ai, which lists him among the project's current employees. No source read here attests a team or a longer title, so none is given.Source →
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29 Sept 2026 · Interview · frominside.ai
I’m really worried that future AI models could be very helpful to scientists in a way that means they can be helpful to bioterrorists.
Research scientist, Google DeepMind at the time
From the same interview, at 33:04.
29 Sept 2026 · Interview · frominside.ai
I would put at least a ten percent chance that it causes human extinction, and that is ridiculously high.
Research scientist, Google DeepMind at the time
From his filmed interview for frominside.ai, a Palisade Research project of interviews with current and former frontier-lab employees, at 0:43. Date is the day the project was published and Reuters reported it; the day of filming is not stated.