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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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Ethan Perez
Team Lead, Anthropic
AI Scientists
Bojan Arbutina
Associate Professor of Astrophysics, University of Belgrade
Other Notable Figures
Eric D. Feigelson
Professor of Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Statistics, Penn State University
Other Notable Figures
Michal Pechoucek
Professor of AI / CTO, Czech Technical University in Prague / Gen Digital
AI Scientists
Tom Everitt
Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Christoph Weniger
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam
Other Notable Figures
Jan Leike
Alignment Team Lead, OpenAI
AI Scientists
Rohin Shah
Alignment Team Lead, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Mark Chen
Head of Frontiers Research, OpenAI
AI Scientists
Geoffrey Irving
Scalable Alignment Team Lead, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Cullen O'Keefe
Research Scientist (Governance), OpenAI
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Lucia Quirke
Memeber of Technical Staff at Eleuther AI
AI Scientists
Grant Larsen
Assistant Professor of Physics, Principia College
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Jeff Greensite
Professor of Physics, San Francisco State University
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Subodh Patil
Assistant Professor of Physics, Leiden University
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Jared Rice
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Southwestern Adventist University
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Adrian Tang
Strategic Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AI Scientists
Andrew Briggs
Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford
Other Notable Figures
Andre Vellino
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
AI Scientists
Yossi Matias
VP Engineering and Research, Google
AI Scientists
Jason Abaluck
Professor of Economics, Yale University
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Anton Korinek
Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, Rubenstein Fellow, Brookings Institution
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Ketan Ramakrishnan
Associate Professor of Law, Yale University
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Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
Professor of Law, University of Cambridge
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Edoardo Gallo
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
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John Armour
Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford
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Mitchell Berman
Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Other Notable Figures
Michiel Bakker
Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Ian Hogarth
Co-author, State of AI
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Senthooran Rajamanoharan
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Stanislav Fort
Large Language Model Lead, Stability AI
AI Scientists
Tulio de Oliveira
Professor in Data Science & Bioinformatics, School for Data Sciences and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University
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Connor Leahy
CEO, Conjecture
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Chris Scammell
COO, Conjecture
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Andrea Miotti
Head of Strategy, Conjecture
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Simon Osindero
Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
Roland Fernandez
Principal Researcher, Microsoft
AI Scientists
Adam Tauman Kalai
Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
AI Scientists
Curtis Huebner
Head of Alignment Research, EleutherAI
Other Notable Figures
David Wallace
Professor, Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Kenny Easwaran
Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine
Other Notable Figures
Huw Price
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Bonn
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Sven Behnke
Professor for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University of Bonn, Germany
AI Scientists
Alekh Agarwal
Staff Research Scientist, Google Research
AI Scientists
Yonglong Tian
Senior Research Scientist, Google Research
AI Scientists
Yannis Assael
Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
AI Scientists
William MacAskill
Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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J. Mauricio Gaona
Senior Fellow at HRC Indianapolis & Oppenheimer Scholar at McGill University
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Toby Ord
Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Diane Michelfelder
Professor of Philosophy, Macalester College
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