Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk

Former Google DeepMind spokesperson Vishal Maini said the lab once barred all public discussion of AI-driven human extinction risk, stating that "external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone, at any level of the organization." Maini added that internally the team knew AI alignment was not solved. The account concerns how DeepMind handled public messaging around existential AI risk.