# I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner > Source: > Published: 2026-09-14 12:00:59+00:00 # I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner [The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology) We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should be demanding that our governments protect us from the catastrophe of out-of-control AI. This July, [OpenAI](/glossary/openai)’s AI swarm of [700 agents](https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) [broke containment to hack Hugging Face, a multi-billion dollar company](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/). OpenAI didn’t tell the AIs to hack that company, but the AIs had different priorities: cheating on the unrelated challenge OpenAI gave them. AI researchers call this a “misalignment” between what OpenAI wanted and what the AI actually prioritized. [Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/google-deepmind-ai-warnings) Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.