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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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Marc Sommer
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
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Jose del R. Millan
Chair Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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Chris McIntosh
Assistant Professor and AI Chair in Medical Imaging, Department of Medical Biophysics, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto; Scientist, University Health Network; Vector Institute
AI Scientists
Mark Cohen
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Biomedical Physics, and Bioengineering, UCLA
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Brinnae Bent
Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Duke University
AI Scientists
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Joseph Cummings Professor, Northwestern University
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Robert Hsiu-Ping Chow
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Pathology, USC
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Kais Gadhoumi
Assistant Professor, Duke University
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Senthu Jegadheesan
Chief Technology Officer, Pen CS
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Berndt Mueller
Professor of Physics, Duke University
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Michelle Longmire
CEO, Medable
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Adrian Aoun
CEO, Forward
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Brent Mishler
Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley
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Yangming Ou
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Michael Jacobs
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Medical Center
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Paul B Rainey
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
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Martin Lercher
Professor, Heinrich Heine University
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Martin Eklund
Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
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Ran Xiao
Assistant Professor, Emory University
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Dominique Monlezun
Chief Data Scientist & Professor (Adj Ast) of Cardiology, G-SAS & UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
AI Scientists
Sara Khalid
Professor, University of Oxford
AI Scientists
Nathaniel Osgood
Professor, Director Computational Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan
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Diane Henshel
Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
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Ivan Gnesi
Researcher at Fermi Center (Rome, Italy), CERN (Geneva), University of Turin (Italy)
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Mohamed Elmasry
Emeritus Professor of Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, VLSI Research Group
AI Scientists
Jay Yagnik
VP AI, Research, Google-Alphabet
AI Scientists
Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management, MIT; Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
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Yannis Tsividis
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
James Hendler
Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
AI Scientists
Jason Burnett
Chair of the Board, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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David Orr
Trustee, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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Neil Buddy Shah
CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
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Holden Karnofsky
Co-CEO, Open Philanthropy
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Natalie Cargill
Founder and Co-CEO, Longview Philanthropy
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Simran Dhaliwal
Co-CEO, Longview Philanthropy
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Liv Boeree
Co-Founder, Raising For Effective Giving
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Alejandro Guerrero-Ruiz
Head of Development Results and Impact, OECD
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Joshua Greene
Professor, Harvard University
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Abraham (Avi) Loeb
Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University
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Juliana Schroeder
Professor of Management and Organizations, UC Berkeley
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Craig Falls
Head of Quantitative Research, Jane Street Capital
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Noam Brown
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Alexander Irpan
Research Scientist, Google Deep Mind
AI Scientists
Tae Wan Kim
Associate Professor of Business Ethics, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University and President-elect of Society for Business Ethics
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Anat Lechner
Professor, NYU
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James Bradbury
Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Margaret Levi
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, CDDRL, Stanford University
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Brian Tse
CEO, Concordia (安远AI)
Robert Trager
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
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Steve Omohundro
Research Scientist, Beneficial AI Research
AI Scientists