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TurnTrout

former AI safety researcher at Google DeepMind

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“Treat huge quantities of computing power like fissile material. We register the giant clusters. We license the biggest training runs, so no one is secretly about to set off an intelligence explosion.”
Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in IndiaAI Alignment Forum, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. In the Delhi talk, setting out how governments could pace the frontier by tracking chips.
“We also need real auditors with real permissions—auditors these companies don’t get to choose or ice out. We need governments to be told when there’s an AI breakout or a potential loss-of-control incident.”
Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in IndiaAI Alignment Forum, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. In the Delhi talk, on what oversight of AI companies should include.
“My best guess is about a one in three chance that in the next ten years, AI kills at least 95% of the global population without being told to.”
Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in IndiaAI Alignment Forum, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. In the Delhi talk, answering the question of whether AI will wipe out humanity.
“When pressure met ethical commitments at Google, pressure won. And now Google advocates a voluntary self-policing regime for the whole industry.”
Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in IndiaAI Alignment Forum, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. In the Delhi talk, after describing leaving Google DeepMind over its Pentagon deal.
“I’m actually considered an optimist, as far as experts in this field go. I think trustworthy AI is a very solvable scientific problem. But unfortunately, we’re blowing it.”
Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in IndiaAI Alignment Forum, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. In the Delhi talk, on the author's own outlook.

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  1. EssayAI Alignment ForumWrote it

    Explaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in India

    TurnTrout, who says TurnTrout left Google DeepMind in June, posts the transcript of a 20-minute talk at the NDTV World Summit in Delhi. The talk cites the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, estimates a one-in-three chance of AI-caused mass death within ten years, and urges licensing the largest training runs. Notes on rhetorical choices follow.