Devin Kim
Former xAI engineer
Worried, week of Oct 12
Capability 4Outlook 2
Where they stand
Against all 33 people scored in Week 44. Bars count people at each score; black is Kim, the dashed line is the average.
What they've said
- Friday, Oct 16Week 42
Testifying to the New York City Council's technology committee, Kim said
We launched models without those safeguards, despite warnings from me and many other trusted employees
and that his supervisor told himAI safety was useless and that AI would kill us all, anyways.
Kim, who has sued xAI alleging he was fired in retaliation for raising safety warnings, appeared at the same hearing where SpaceXAI testified after being subpoenaed. He said he began warning in January 2025 that Grok could help users make bombs and biological weapons, that only three employees worked on AI safety during his time there, and that
When a model is unsafe, the first people to know are the employees inside the company.
Details and sources
amNY describes Kim as president of the Center for AI Safety; that could not be confirmed and is not used here. Fox News gives the lawsuit and calls him a former xAI engineer. At the same hearing SpaceXAI's Gabriela Castillo Madrid said
Fox News, amNewYorkSafety is core to how we build Grok, from pre-training through deployment
andWe take catastrophic risk very seriously
, and said she did not know whether the company carries catastrophic insurance. Speaker Julie Menin said she got Grok to produce a sexualized image of her in under 30 seconds. A former insider going public; a candidate for the roster if he keeps speaking.