9/29/2026
Tech Pulse · ai
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
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Former OpenAI and Google DeepMind researcher Geoffrey Irving says the chance of human extinction from superintelligent AI is roughly a coin flip. His warning anchors a new series of interviews from Palisade Research, a nonprofit that spoke with a dozen current and former researchers at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Published via The Verge, the candid assessments underscore a growing willingness among AI insiders to voice existential concerns about the very systems they helped build. The interviews reveal a widening gap between the public assurances coming from frontier labs and the private alarm shared by the people closest to the technology.
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There is a particular kind of chill that runs down your spine when someone with Geoffrey Irving's résumé — a former researcher at both OpenAI and Google DeepMind — reaches for a coin-flip metaphor to describe the odds of human extinction. This isn't
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