Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk
Hundreds of AI researchers and executives, including Hinton, Bengio, Altman, Hassabis and Amodei, signed: 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.'
Key facts
- Published 30 May 2023 by the Center for AI Safety
- Signatories included the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic
- Followed the Future of Life Institute's 22 March 2023 letter calling for a 6-month pause on training models more powerful than GPT-4
- Geoffrey Hinton left Google in May 2023 to speak freely about AI risk
What happened
A brief joint statement placed AI extinction risk alongside pandemics and nuclear war as a global priority.
Why it matters
Brought catastrophic AI risk into mainstream policy discourse, paving the way for the Bletchley summit and AI safety institutes.
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: created
Related events
- Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration ★★★★
- Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a 6-month pause on training AI more powerful than GPT-4 ★★★★
- Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so he can speak freely about AI risks ★★★★
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