Alex Turner
@Turn_Trout
Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Contact at alex@turntrout.com
Vegan, 10% of income pledged to effective charities
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> violated clear policies
> won't say what the policies are
> “not about raising safety concerns”
> doesn’t deny firing him for talking to third-party safety orgs
> we prioritize monitorability
> deploys and profits from model that destroys monitorability trends
subpoena plz
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As an independent expert: we must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence.
I left Google DeepMind in June. Jacob is right: many researchers believe they are building something that could kill everyone on the planet. It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that.
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I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying.
For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence.
Here's what happened. 🧵
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