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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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Matthew Botvinick
Senior Technology and Policy Advisor, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Jason Hickey
Head of Google Research Accra, Google LLC
AI Scientists
Angie French
Director, Marketing Science, Meta
AI Scientists
Gregory Wayne
Director in Research, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Ethan Dyer
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Marcelo Camara
Chief Security Advisor - LatAm, Microsoft
Other Notable Figures
Jennifer F. Waldern
Data Scientist and Researcher, Microsoft
AI Scientists
Andrew Critch
CEO & AI Research Scientist, Encultured AI & UC Berkeley
AI Scientists
Richard Tong
Chair, IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee, IEEE and Carnegie Learning
Other Notable Figures
Nell Watson
AI Ethics Maestro, IEEE Standards Association
AI Scientists
Steven Tanimoto
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
Other Notable Figures
Eric Mjolsness
Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
AI Scientists
Goetz Neuneck
Professor & Doctor rerum naturalium, Co-chair, Federation of German Scientists (VDW)
Other Notable Figures
John-Clark Levin
Research Lead, Kurzweil AI
AI Scientists
Simon Thorpe
CNRS Research Director, CNRS, University of Toulouse, France
AI Scientists
Michael Dyer
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science UCLA
AI Scientists
Kimin Lee
Research Scientist, Google Research
AI Scientists
David Martinez
MIT Lead Instructor and Laboratory Fellow, MIT
Other Notable Figures
James Phillips
Former Special Adviser to the UK Prime Minister for Science and Technology
Other Notable Figures
Simon Kornblith
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Director, AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme, University of Cambridge
Other Notable Figures
Vincent Weisser
Chief Eco, Molecule
Other Notable Figures
Alexander Morgan
Journalist, Bloomberg
Other Notable Figures
David Kushner
Author/Journalist, Rolling Stone
Other Notable Figures
Brent Goff
Chief News Anchor, DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Other Notable Figures
Claire Berlinski
Editor in Chief, The Cosmopolitan Globalist
Other Notable Figures
Miles Palmer
Founder, 8 Rivers Capital
Other Notable Figures
Peter Prove
Director, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches
Other Notable Figures
Priyamvada Natarajan
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University
Other Notable Figures
Jonathan Richens
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Namkug Kim
Professor at Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Univ. of Ulsan College of Medicine
AI Scientists
Gregor Joeris
CTO, SERgroup
AI Scientists
Ian Shipsey
Henry Moseley Professor of Physics, Oxford University
Other Notable Figures
Steven Kivelson
Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Other Notable Figures
Shamit Kachru
Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Other Notable Figures
Leonard Susskind
Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University
Other Notable Figures
Anil Madhavapeddy
Professor of Planetary Computing, University of Cambridge
AI Scientists
Christopher F. McKee
Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Other Notable Figures
Shivaji Sondhi
Wykeham Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
Other Notable Figures
J. Mark Cock
Research Director, CNRS
Other Notable Figures
Jan Hendrik Kirchner
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
AI Scientists
Tommaso Treu
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
Other Notable Figures
Alexander Maloney
Professor of Physics, McGill University
Other Notable Figures
James Crutchfield
Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis
Other Notable Figures
William J Ripple
University Distinguished Professor, Oregon State University
Other Notable Figures
Fernán Jaramillo
Professor of Biology, Carleton College
Other Notable Figures
Daniel Gardner
Professor of Physiology & Biophysics; Head, Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Other Notable Figures
Nataliya Kosmyna
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
AI Scientists
Adam Seth Litwin
Associate Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Other Notable Figures
Jason Wei
Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
AI Scientists