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Lab heads and AI researchers sign a one-sentence statement on extinction risk from AI

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Source: Center for AI Safety: Statement on AI RiskAlso reported by AP (via WSLS)

The Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement on 30 May 2023 saying that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. Signatories included Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei.

Why it matters

The chief executives of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic publicly ranked extinction risk from AI alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

When
30 May 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0026
Who
Center for AI Safety, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic; Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Center for AI Safety and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Center for AI Safety

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0026: “Lab heads and AI researchers sign a one-sentence statement on extinction risk from AI.” wheresthe.ai, 30 May 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-cais-statement-on-ai-extinction-risk-2023-05/ (source: Center for AI Safety: Statement on AI Risk).

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