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Statement on AI Risk - Center for AI Safety
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This landmark 2023 open letter is frequently cited as a turning point in mainstream acknowledgment of existential AI risk, bringing together signatories from across the AI industry and policy world under a single succinct statement.
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Summary
A concise open letter coordinated by the Center for AI Safety stating that mitigating extinction-level risk from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. The statement has been signed by hundreds of leading AI researchers, executives, and public figures including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis, lending significant institutional credibility to existential AI risk concerns.
Key Points
- •Core statement: 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.'
- •Signatories include prominent AI scientists (Hinton, Bengio, Sutskever), CEOs of major AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind), and policymakers.
- •Designed to normalize discussion of severe AI risks and create common knowledge that serious experts take existential risk seriously.
- •Represents broad international consensus, with signatories from US, China, Russia, and other nations.
- •Published by CAIS (Center for AI Safety) as part of efforts to elevate AI safety discourse in public and policy arenas.
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|---|---|---|
| AI Compounding Risks Analysis Model | Analysis | 60.0 |
| Center for AI Safety | Organization | 42.0 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund | Organization | 59.0 |
| Sam Altman | Person | 40.0 |
| Yoshua Bengio | Person | 39.0 |
| Pause Advocacy | Approach | 91.0 |
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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.
#### Signatories:
AI Scientists
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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, Internationa
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