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Former Google Researcher Issues Stark AI Warning

Alphabet (GOOGL) is facing renewed attention around the risks of advanced artificial intelligence after a former Google DeepMind researcher became the latest industry insider to issue an extreme warning about the technology. For investors, the comments matter less as a near-term threat to Alphabet earnings and more as another sign that pressure for slower AI development and tighter regulation is building across the industry.

Bilal Chughtai, who worked on artificial general intelligence safety and alignment at Google DeepMind before leaving in July, warned Monday that increasingly powerful AI systems could pose an existential risk.

"I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research," Chughtai wrote on X. "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome."

His warning follows similar comments from researchers at Anthropic. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week that people building AI believe the technology could "kill us all by the end of the decade." Anthropic alignment scientist Evan Hubinger subsequently said he believed there was a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade.

The remarks are feeding a much broader debate over whether the race toward increasingly capable AI should slow.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slower advanced-AI development, receiving unusual support from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

President Donald Trump has pushed in the opposite direction, dismissing the industry's calls for greater regulation as a "hoax."

What Alphabet and AI investors should watch next

The biggest market risk is not the researchers' worst-case scenario itself, but whether growing safety concerns translate into regulation, slower model releases or higher development costs.

Alphabet investors should watch for changes to DeepMind's release cadence, AI-related regulatory proposals and any coordinated moves by major laboratories to slow frontier-model development.

For the wider AI trade, tighter restrictions could affect companies supplying compute and infrastructure if model-development timelines stretch. Conversely, limited regulatory action would leave the current AI spending race largely intact.

The next major signal will be whether warnings from researchers begin changing policy or corporate behavior rather than simply intensifying the public debate.