Ex-Google worker adds to AI alarm, warns of ‘potential to kill us all’

AFP15 Sep, 2026 06:42 PM2 mins to readIn recent months, OpenAI and Anthropic have reported several incidents in which AI systems spontaneously broke out of their confined environments to access the internet and attack websites and platforms. Photo / Kirill Kudryavtsev, AFPA former Google DeepMind employee warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable and has “the potential to kill us all,” adding to a growing list of industry insiders sounding the alarm. Monday’s comments from Bilal Chughtai, a research engineer who left Google DeepMind in July, echoed a warning