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Statement on AI Risk

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

The Statement on AI risk
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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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Baburam Bhattarai
Former Prime Minister of Nepal, Society of Nepalese Architects
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Kersti Kaljulaid
Former President of the Republic of Estonia
Other Notable Figures
Russell Schweickart
Apollo 9 Astronaut, Association of Space Explorers, B612 Foundation
Other Notable Figures
Andy Weber
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Council on Strategic Risks
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Allison Macfarlane
Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Nicholas Fairfax (Lord Fairfax)
Member, House of Lords
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Mark Beall
Former Director of AI Strategy and Policy, Department of Defense
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Lord Strathcarron
Peer, House of Lords
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Stephen Luby
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Stanford University
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David Haussler
Professor and Director of the Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz
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Ju Li
Professor of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Notable Figures
David Chalmers
Professor of Philosophy, New York University
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Daniel Dennett
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
Other Notable Figures
Peter Railton
Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Peter Singer
Professor, Princeton University
Other Notable Figures
Sheila McIlraith
Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Victoria Krakovna
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Mary Phuong
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Other Notable Figures
Lex Fridman
Research Scientist, MIT
AI Scientists
Sharon Li
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison
AI Scientists
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
AI Scientists
David Krueger
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge
AI Scientists
Jacob Steinhardt
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
AI Scientists
Martin Rees
Professor of Physics, Cambridge University
Other Notable Figures
Nando de Freitas
Director, Science Board, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Hongwei Qin
Research Director, SenseTime
AI Scientists
He He
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
AI Scientists
David McAllester
Professor of Computer Science, TTIC
AI Scientists
Vincent Conitzer
Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford
AI Scientists
Bart Selman
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
AI Scientists
Philip Torr
Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
AI Scientists
James Mickens
Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Other Notable Figures
Michael Wellman
Professor & Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
AI Scientists
Luis Videgaray
Senior Lecturer, MIT; Former Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations of Mexico
Other Notable Figures
Jinwoo Shin
KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
AI Scientists
Alice Oh
Professor at The School of Computing, KAIST and Director, MARS AI Research Center
AI Scientists
Dae-Shik Kim
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
AI Scientists
Edith Elkind
Professor of Computing Science, University of Oxford
AI Scientists
Ray Kurzweil
Principal Researcher and AI Visionary, Google
Other Notable Figures
Frank Hutter
Professor of Machine Learning, Head of ELLIS Unit, University of Freiburg
AI Scientists
Alexey Dosovitskiy
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Jaan Tallinn
Co-Founder of Skype
Other Notable Figures
Vitalik Buterin
Founder and Chief Scientist, Ethereum, Ethereum Foundation
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Adam D'Angelo
CEO, Quora, and board member, OpenAI
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Simon Last
Cofounder and CTO, Notion
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Dustin Moskovitz
Co-founder and CEO, Asana
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Shane Torchiana
CEO, Bird
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Thuan Q. Pham
Former CTO, Uber, Board member, Nubank
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Scott Aaronson
Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
AI Scientists