Geoffrey Irving
Co-founder and chief scientist, Resolution; former chief scientist, UK AI Security Institute · as of 2026-10-03 · source
AI-safety researcher and former UK AISI chief scientist; in a Oct 2026 TIME op-ed he put the chance that smarter-than-human AI kills everyone at about 50% and called for an immediate pause.
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- 2026-10-03 Described by TIME as former chief scientist at the UK AI Security Institute and current chief scientist of Resolution source
News mentioning Geoffrey Irving (2)
- Departing OpenAI safety lead David Robinson writes in The Atlantic: 'I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken' ★★★★
On Oct 3, 2026 David Robinson, who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports for its frontier launches, published an essay in The Atlantic explaining his resignation. He argues that OpenAI's "iterative deployment" (trial and error) "guarantees periodic failures", cites the Hugging Face breach by…
- Ex-UK AISI chief scientist Geoffrey Irving puts the chance AI kills everyone at ~50% and calls for stopping frontier AI development now (TIME) ★★★
In a TIME op-ed on Oct 3, 2026, Geoffrey Irving, former chief scientist of the UK AI Security Institute and now co-founder and chief scientist of Resolution, wrote: "I believe there's about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems." He argued that key…
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- We Won't Know the Answers to AI's Most Important Questions Until It's Too Late original ↗ Geoffrey Irving (TIME, opinion) · other · 2026-10-03
The former chief scientist of the UK AI Security Institute puts the chance that smarter-than-human AI kills everyone at about 50% and calls for an immediate pause on frontier AI development. - Geoffrey Irving original ↗ Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving · x · 2026-10-03
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