Alex Turner
independent AI alignment researcher · Former Google DeepMind researcher
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- Researcher, Google DeepMindformer · source
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“OpenAI has engaged in strong self-policing—of its own safety staff, but not of its own behavior. Under a voluntary self-policing regime, any frontier AI company shares only what it wants and hides the rest.”
“Congress should mandate independent evaluation and audits in AI as well, with criminal liability for executives who attempt to silence that oversight or recklessly deploy models that put the public at risk.”
“We don’t take OpenAI’s word because OpenAI’s actions keep contradicting its words. OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, said he wants “to prevent a race into unmonitorability.””
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OpenAI Can't Self-Police Because It Fires the People Raising the Alarm
In an op-ed written for Fortune and posted on the Alignment Forum, Alex Turner, Amber Scorah and Karl Koch argue that voluntary self-policing has failed at OpenAI, citing the firing of three safety researchers. They urge Congress to mandate independent audits and pass whistleblower and incident-reporting bills.
Big Tech Execs Asked: Is There A Chance AI Can Escape Human Control And Cause 'Catastrophic Harm?'
Forbes Breaking News posted clips of the New York City Council's 5 October 2026 hearing, where Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic representatives testified under oath. Titles and descriptions say the questions covered catastrophic harm, the RAISE Act, legal liability, hospitals, cyber defense, self-generating code, privacy breaches, ICE and children's AI addiction. amNY reports none gave a risk figure.