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.

Signatories:

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Max Tegmark
Professor, MIT, Center for AI and Fundamental Interactions
AI Scientists
Bruce Schneier
Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Other Notable Figures
Martha Minow
Professor, Harvard Law School
Other Notable Figures
Gabriella Blum
Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law
Other Notable Figures
Kevin Esvelt
Associate Professor of Biology, MIT
Other Notable Figures
Edward Wittenstein
Executive Director, International Security Studies, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University
Other Notable Figures
Sonny Ramaswamy
President, Northwest Commission on Colleges & Universities
Other Notable Figures
Laurie Zoloth
Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, University of Chicago
Other Notable Figures
Karina Vold
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Other Notable Figures
Victor Veitch
Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics, University of Chicago
AI Scientists
Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT
AI Scientists
Samuel R. Bowman
Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYU and Anthropic
AI Scientists
Mengye Ren
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University
AI Scientists
Shiri Dori-Hacohen
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Connecticut
AI Scientists
Miles Brundage
Head of Policy Research, OpenAI
Other Notable Figures
Allan Dafoe
AGI Strategy and Governance Team Lead, Google DeepMind
Other Notable Figures
Helen King
Senior Director of Responsibility and Strategic Advisor to Research, Google DeepMind
Other Notable Figures
Jade Leung
Governance Lead, OpenAI
Other Notable Figures
Jess Whittlestone
Head of AI Policy, Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Other Notable Figures
Sarah Kreps
John L. Wetherill Professor and Director of the Tech Policy Institute, Cornell University
Other Notable Figures
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder, Anthropic
AI Scientists
Chris Olah
Co-Founder, Anthropic
AI Scientists
Andrew Revkin
Director, Initiative on Communication & Sustainability, Columbia University - Climate School
Other Notable Figures
Carl Robichaud
Program Officer (Nuclear Weapons), Longview Philanthropy
Other Notable Figures
Leonid Chindelevitch
Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London
Other Notable Figures
Nicholas Dirks
President, The New York Academy of Sciences
Other Notable Figures
Hongyi Zhang
Research Scientist, ByteDance
AI Scientists
Marc Warner
CEO, Faculty
Other Notable Figures
Rob Pike
Distinguished Engineer (retired), Co-Creator of Golang, Google
Other Notable Figures
Clare Lyle
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Nisarg Shah
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Ryota Kanai
CEO, Araya, Inc.
AI Scientists
Tim G. J. Rudner
Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, New York University
AI Scientists
Noah Fiedel
Director, Research and Engineering, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Jakob Foerster
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
AI Scientists
Michael Osborne
Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford
AI Scientists
Marina Jirotka
Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford
Other Notable Figures
Nancy Chang
Research Scientist, Google
AI Scientists
Tom Schaul
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Daniel Cer
Research Scientist at Google Deepmind
AI Scientists
Roger Grosse
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto and Anthropic
AI Scientists
David Duvenaud
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Daniel M. Roy
Associate Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, University of Toronto; Vector Institute
AI Scientists
Kanjun Qiu
CEO, Generally Intelligent
AI Scientists
Chris J. Maddison
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Tegan Maharaj
Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Florian Shkurti
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
AI Scientists
Jeff Clune
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, The University of British Columbia and the Vector Institute
AI Scientists
Eva Vivalt
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto, and Director, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford
Other Notable Figures
Jacob Tsimerman
Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto
Other Notable Figures