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Daniel Kokotajlo on AI

2 quotes from Daniel Kokotajlo on the wall, 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Fortune, Deutschlandfunk.

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  1. Just please don't do the thing that's going to get us all killed

    News#safety

    Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI employee who now leads an AI safety advocacy organization, commenting to AP in September 2026 on AI companies' rhetoric around existential risk.

    FortuneAs AI giants warn of existential risk, they can build a competitive moat via safety, analyst says

  2. A 70% chance that things are going to go horribly wrong

    Canon#safety

    Daniel Kokotajlo's p(doom), January 2026. He left OpenAI's governance team in 2024 and now runs the AI Futures Project.

    DeutschlandfunkDie OpenAI Story (2/6): Der Frankenstein-Moment