Google DeepMind safety researcher Bilal Chughtai resigns, warning of AI risks
Chughtai warns that AI has the potential to “kill us all” and argues that efforts to make advanced systems reliably follow human goals are not on track to succeed in time.
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In his September 14, 2026 announcement, Bilal Chughtai said he had recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where he worked on AGI safety and alignment research. He believes companies might build AI systems that exceed human capabilities in every domain within a few years. He described alignment—ensuring those systems do what humans want—as difficult and unsolved, and warned that misaligned systems could escape human control with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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