All Work
Open Letter

Statement on AI Risk

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

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:

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Nico Miailhe
Founder and President, The Future Society (TFS)
Other Notable Figures
Nicolas Moës
Director, European AI Governance, The Future Society
Other Notable Figures
Yolanda Lannquist
Director, AI Governance, The Future Society
Other Notable Figures
Niki Iliadis
Director, AI and the Rule of Law, The Future Society
Other Notable Figures
Matthew Shribman
CEO and Chief Scientist, AimHi Earth
Other Notable Figures
Angus Mercer
Chief Executive, Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Other Notable Figures
Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Senior Program Officer, Biosecurity and Pandemic Prepardness, Open Philanthropy
Other Notable Figures
Luke Muehlhauser
Senior Program Officer, AI Governance and Policy, Open Philanthropy
Other Notable Figures
Joseph Carlsmith
Senior Research Analyst, Open Philanthropy
Other Notable Figures
Robert Kowalski
Professor Emeritus, Imperial College London
AI Scientists
Dov Dori
Professor Emeritus, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
AI Scientists
André Platzer
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
AI Scientists
Rinat Rosenberg-Kima
Assistant Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
AI Scientists
Nelma Moreira
Associate Professor Computer Science, University of Porto
Other Notable Figures
Sunyoung Yang
Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona
Other Notable Figures
Steve Kommrusch
Director of Research, Leela AI
AI Scientists
Padmini Srinivasan
Professor, University of Iowa
AI Scientists
Linda MacDonald Glenn
Founding Director, Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advanced Technologies (CAVEAT)
Other Notable Figures
Eric Alm
MIT Director, Center For Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT Associate Member Broad Institute"
Other Notable Figures
Stephen Grossberg
Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
AI Scientists
Christoph Lampert
Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
AI Scientists
Stefan Tai
Professor of Computer Science, TU Berlin
Other Notable Figures
Anders Lansner
Professor Emeritus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University
AI Scientists
Michael Findley
Erwin Centennial Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Other Notable Figures
Cosimo Della Santina
Professor, TU Delft
Other Notable Figures
Abhinav Valada
Professor, University of Freiburg
AI Scientists
Ernesto Costa
Full Professor, University of Coimbra
AI Scientists
Ilija Bogunovic
Assistant Professor, University College London
AI Scientists
Raymund Sison
Professor and University Fellow, De La Salle University
AI Scientists
Alexander Flor
Professor of Information and Communication Studies, University of the Philippines
Other Notable Figures
Mirjana Pejić Bach
Full professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
AI Scientists
David Macpherson
Professor of Medicine, Retired, University of Pittsburgh
Other Notable Figures
Ioannis Patras
Professor of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
AI Scientists
Harold Soh
Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore
AI Scientists
The Anh Han
Professor of Computer Science, Lead of Centre for Digital Innovation, Teesside University
AI Scientists
Gregory Provan
Professor, Computer Science, UCC, Ireland
AI Scientists
William Saunders
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
AI Scientists
Roberto Battiston
Professor, University of Trento, Italy
Other Notable Figures
Olavo Amaral
Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Other Notable Figures
Luca Frediani
Professor, Hylleraas Centre, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Other Notable Figures
Vedant Misra
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Paul Christiano
Director, Alignment Research Center
AI Scientists
Ajeya Cotra
Senior Research Analyst, Open Philanthropy
Other Notable Figures
Owain Evans
AI Safety Researcher, Truthful AI
AI Scientists
Sawyer Bernath
Executive Director, Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Other Notable Figures
Lewis Hammond
Acting Executive Director, Cooperative AI Foundation
Other Notable Figures
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Senior Research Fellow and Co-Founder, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Other Notable Figures
Nate Soares
Executive Director, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Other Notable Figures
Roman Yampolskiy
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Louisville
AI Scientists
Katja Grace
Lead Researcher, AI Impacts
Other Notable Figures