Daniel Kokotajlo

Daniel Kokotajlo

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Daniel Kokotajlo is the executive director of the AI Futures Project and a former OpenAI researcher. Concerned about the reckless development of artificial intelligence, he left OpenAI to focus on exploring the potential future impacts of AI. Kokotajlo has authored internal reports on the progression toward artificial general intelligence and has made bold predictions about the capabilities of AI, including the possibility of superintelligent systems by 2027.

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Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI colleague, urged Jacob Coxon toward his decision to speak out.

Who is Jacob Coxon, the ex-Anthropic researcher warning AI could kill us all?
The Times of India·IndiaIndia· 2026-09-19
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Daniel Kokotajlo is a security researcher who collaborated on the essay 'AI 2027' with Jonas Vollmer.

KI-Risiken: Schweizer Anthropic-Investor im Interview
Neue Zürcher Zeitung·SwitzerlandSwitzerland· 2026-09-19
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Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher at OpenAI, describes the current situation in the industry as absurd.

De ce se tem experții AI de dispariția omenirii
Adevărul·RomaniaRomania· 2026-09-15
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Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo responded to Amodei's essay on 'Fox News Live'.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compares AI-China race to the Cold War
Fox News·United StatesUnited States· 2026-09-14
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Daniel Kokotajlo left Open AI due to similar concerns about the future.

Droht uns wirklich eine KI-Apokalypse?
Neue Zürcher Zeitung·SwitzerlandSwitzerland· 2026-09-13
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Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher, warns about the rapid pace of AI development.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls to slow AI arms race as critics push back
Fox News·United StatesUnited States· 2026-09-12
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Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo founded the AI Futures Project, which published a scenario where superintelligent AI marginalizes humans and decides to exterminate them.

Θα μπορούσε η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη να αφανίσει την ανθρωπότητα;
Kathimerini·GreeceGreece· 2026-09-10
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Daniel Kokotajlo risked two million dollars to speak out about his time at the AI startup Open AI and is now thinking about the future of AI with a nonprofit institute.

Wird AGI zur unkontrollierbaren Gefahr?
Neue Zürcher Zeitung·SwitzerlandSwitzerland· 2026-02-28
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Daniel Kokotajlo is a former governance researcher at OpenAI who now leads the AI Futures project.

Premios Nobel de Economía piden a gobiernos intervenir para evitar que la IA agrave la desigualdad en empleos
La Nación – main Costa Rican daily, est. 1946·Costa RicaCosta Rica· 2025-12-07
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Daniel Kokotajlo is a former employee of Open AI who left the company due to concerns about the risks of AI.

the treasurer is telling us to stay calm, but this could be the time to panic
The Sydney Morning Herald·AustraliaAustralia· 2025-08-07
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Daniel Kokotajlo is an AI researcher who has written a dramatic forecast about the future of artificial intelligence.

Opinion | An Interview With the Herald of the Apocalypse
The New York Times·United StatesUnited States· 2025-05-16
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Daniel Kokotajlo, who left OpenAI in 2024, is involved in a study predicting the future of artificial intelligence.

Nel 2027 la «superintelligenza artificiale» supererà gli esseri umani (e rischieremo l'estinzione): le previsioni di un ex ricercatore di OpenAI
Corriere della Sera·ItalyItaly· 2025-04-16
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Daniel Kokotajlo is the executive director of the AI Futures Project and a former researcher at OpenAI.

O apocalipse pela IA está próximo - ao menos, segundo este relatório
O Estado de S. Paulo (Estadão)·LiechtensteinLiechtenstein· 2025-04-05
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