Statement on AI Risk

AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk.

AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI. Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks. The succinct statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion. It is also meant to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI’s most severe risks seriously.

The statement:

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Academic & notable signatories:

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Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Yoshua Bengio
Professor of Computer Science, U. Montreal / Mila
AI Scientists
Demis Hassabis
CEO, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
Other Notable Figures
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
AI Scientists
Dawn Song
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
AI Scientists
Ted Lieu
Congressman, US House of Representatives
Other Notable Figures
Bill Gates
Gates Ventures
Other Notable Figures
Ya-Qin Zhang
Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University
AI Scientists
Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI
AI Scientists
Igor Babuschkin
Co-Founder, xAI
AI Scientists
Shane Legg
Chief AGI Scientist and Co-Founder, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Martin Hellman
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford
Other Notable Figures
James Manyika
SVP, Research, Technology and Society, Google-Alphabet
AI Scientists
Yi Zeng
Professor and Director of Brain-inspired Cognitive AI Lab, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
AI Scientists
Xianyuan Zhan
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
AI Scientists
Albert Efimov
Chief of Research, Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence
AI Scientists
Alvin Wang Graylin
China President, HTC
Other Notable Figures
Jianyi Zhang
Professor, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute
AI Scientists
Anca Dragan
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
AI Scientists
Christine Parthemore
CEO and Director of the Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons, The Council on Strategic Risks
Other Notable Figures
Bill McKibben
Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College
Other Notable Figures
Alan Robock
Distinguished Professor of Climate Science, Rutgers University
Other Notable Figures
Angela Kane
Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna; former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Other Notable Figures
Audrey Tang
Digitalminister.tw and Chair of National Institute of Cyber Security
Other Notable Figures
Daniela Amodei
President, Anthropic
Other Notable Figures
David Silver
Professor of Computer Science, Google DeepMind and UCL
AI Scientists
Lila Ibrahim
COO, Google DeepMind
Other Notable Figures
Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
AI Scientists
Tony (Yuhuai) Wu
Co-Founder, xAI
AI Scientists
Marian Rogers Croak
VP Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google
Other Notable Figures
Andrew Barto
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts
AI Scientists
Mira Murati
CTO, OpenAI
Other Notable Figures
Jaime Fernández Fisac
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University
AI Scientists
Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
AI Scientists
Dan Hendrycks
Executive Director, Center for AI Safety
AI Scientists
Gillian Hadfield
Professor, CIFAR AI Chair, University of Toronto, Vector Institute for AI
Other Notable Figures
Laurence Tribe
University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Other Notable Figures
Pattie Maes
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Lab
AI Scientists
Kevin Scott
CTO, Microsoft
Other Notable Figures
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
AI Scientists
Peter Norvig
Education Fellow, Stanford University
AI Scientists
Joseph Sifakis
Turing Award 2007, Professor, CNRS - Universite Grenoble - Alpes
Other Notable Figures
Atoosa Kasirzadeh
Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute
AI Scientists
Erik Brynjolfsson
Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Other Notable Figures
Mustafa Suleyman
CEO, Inflection AI
Other Notable Figures
Emad Mostaque
CEO, Stability AI
Other Notable Figures
Ian Goodfellow
Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
John Schulman
Co-Founder, OpenAI
AI Scientists
Wojciech Zaremba
Co-Founder, OpenAI
AI Scientists