Google DeepMind Staffer Says AI May ‘Kill Us All’ in Exit Post
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High-profile safety concerns from inside labs keep existential risk in the Overton window, which raises the odds of sharper, more binary regulatory moves rather than quiet, incremental rules. Leaders deploying advanced models should treat this as policy volatility risk—build optionality into vendors, model classes, and jurisdictions.
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