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Former Google DeepMind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk


A former Google DeepMind spokesperson says talk of AI-driven human extinction was "external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone, at any level of the organization." Internally, the team knew AI alignment was not solved, according to Vishal Maini.

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