By Yuvraj Malik
Publication Date: 2026-09-15 06:21:00
AI safety concerns intensify as researchers and executives call for guardrails around frontier models.
- Bilal Chughtai said he quit Google DeepMind and warned that AI capabilities are advancing faster than alignment research.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for pacing AI developments.
- The resignation adds to a growing split over whether AI development needs to slow down.
Another AI safety researcher has walked away from a leading artificial intelligence lab, warning that rapidly advancing systems could escape human control, develop dangerous capabilities, and ultimately cause the “permanent disempowerment or death of humanity.”
Bilal Chughtai, who recently resigned from Google DeepMind after working on AGI safety and alignment research, said in a Monday LinkedIn post that he is “extremely concerned by the default trajectory of this technology” and believes “AI has the potential to kill us all.”
‘Alignment’ Is Still An Unsolved Problem
Chughtai said the pace of AI…
