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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.

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Emanuel Adler
Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
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Danit Gal
Technology Advisor at the UN; Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
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Jean-Claude Latombe
Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science, Stanford University
AI Scientists
Scott Niekum
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
AI Scientists
Lionel Levine
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
AI Scientists
Thryn Shapira
AI Ethics Lead, Google Photos
AI Scientists
Josh Wolfe
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Lux Capital
Other Notable Figures
Norman Sadeh
Professor of Computer Science/Co-Director Privacy Engineering Program, Carnegie Mellon University
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Brian Ziebart
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago
AI Scientists
Roberto Baldoni
Former Director General, National Cybersecurity Agency of Italy
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Aza Raskin
Cofounder, Center for Humane Technology, The Earth Species Project
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Prasad Tadepalli
Professor of Computer Science, Oregon State University
AI Scientists
David L Roscoe
Board Chair Emeritus and Advisory Council Chair, The Hastings Center
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Tristan Harris
Executive Director, Center for Humane Technology
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Anthony Aguirre
Executive Director, Future of Life Institute
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Tim Urban
Writer and Co-Founder, Wait But Why
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Sam Harris
Author, Neuroscientist, Making Sense / Waking Up
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Grimes
Musician / Artist
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Chris Anderson
Dreamer-in-Chief, TED
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor/Filmmaker
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Ramy Youssef
Actor/Director, Cairo Cowboy
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Rif A. Saurous
Research Director, Google
AI Scientists
James W. Pennebaker
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
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Will Fithian
Associate Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley
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Jose Hernandez-Orallo
Professor of Computer Science, Technical University of Valencia
AI Scientists
R. Martin Chavez
Vice Chairman, Sixth Street Partners, Former CFO and CIO of Goldman Sachs
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Paul S. Rosenbloom
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Southern California
AI Scientists
Timothy Lillicrap
Research Director, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Samuel Albanie
Assistant Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge
AI Scientists
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Ronald Craig Arkin
Regents' Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology
AI Scientists
Been Kim
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Mehran Sahami
Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Cihang Xie
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
AI Scientists
Philip S. Thomas
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts
AI Scientists
Hilary Greaves
Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
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Pierre Baldi
Professor, University of California, Irvine
AI Scientists
Giovanni Vigna
Professor, UC Santa Barbara
AI Scientists
Benjamin Van Roy
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford and Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Elad Hazan
Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University and Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AI Scientists
Katherine Lee
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Felix Juefei Xu
Research Scientist, Meta AI
AI Scientists
Foutse Khomh
Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Polytechnique Montreal
AI Scientists
Felix Reed-Tsochas
Professor of Complex Systems, University of Oxford
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Mehrdad Mahdavi
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University
AI Scientists
Ofer Meshi
Research Scientist, Google
AI Scientists
Vijay Bolina
Chief Information Security Officer, Google DeepMind
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Charles Cole
Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Wiley Schell
Associate Professor Emeritus, Duke University
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