I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner

<p>We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence </p><p>Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should be demanding that our governments protect us from the catastrophe of out-of-control AI.</p><p>This July, OpenAI’s AI swarm of <a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">700 agents</a> <a href="https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/">broke containment to hack Hugging Face, a multi-billion dollar company</a>. OpenAI didn’t tell the AIs to hack that company, but the AIs had different priorities: cheating on the unrelated challenge OpenAI gave them. AI researchers call this a “misalignment” between what OpenAI wanted and what the AI actually prioritized.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/google-deepmind-ai-warnings">Continue reading...</a>