AI researchers and executives sign a statement on extinction risk

The Center for AI Safety published a one-sentence statement on 30 May 2023, saying that reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority beside pandemics and nuclear war. Hundreds signed, among them Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman.

Why it mattered People running the laboratories that build the most capable systems put their names to the claim that those systems could pose a risk on that scale, six months before the first government summit on it.