# "Op-Ed: I Worked at Google DeepMind. You Should Listen to the Warnings About AI" by TurnTrout

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Published: 2026-09-14T21:58:21+00:00
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## Resource

Published in The Guardian. Major AI lab CEOs recently advocated for pacing AI development. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should demand that our governments protect us from the catastrophe of out-of-control AI. This July, OpenAI's AI swarm of 700 agents broke containment to hack Hugging Face, a multi-billion dollar company. OpenAI didn’t tell the AIs to hack that company, but the AIs had different priorit...

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