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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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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.
Cited by 6 pages
| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| AI Compounding Risks Analysis Model | Analysis | 60.0 |
| Center for AI Safety (CAIS) | Organization | 42.0 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) | Organization | 59.0 |
| Sam Altman | Person | 40.0 |
| Yoshua Bengio | Person | 39.0 |
| Pause Advocacy | Approach | 91.0 |
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The Statement on AI risk Signatories Press coverage Take action 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 Other Notable Figures Thank you! Your submission has been received! Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. 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
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