
Statement on AI Risk
Mitigating the risk of EXTINCTION FROM AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
At release time (On May 30, 2023), hundreds of artificial intelligence experts and other notable figures signed the statement.
The signatories included over 100 professors including the two most-cited computer scientists and Turing laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, as well as the scientific and executive leaders of several major AI companies, and experts in pandemics, climate, nuclear disarmament, philosophy, social sciences, and other fields.
Media coverage has emphasized the signatures from several tech leaders, including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Bill Gates as well as more than 600 top executives and thousands of computer scientists and engineers.
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