Existential Risk (x-risk)
Concept
Safety & Alignment
The argued worst case — and the industry's strangest consensus statement.
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In May 2023, hundreds of researchers and the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind signed a one-sentence statement that mitigating extinction risk from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. Positions span Hinton and Bengio (serious risk), Altman and Amodei (risk worth racing carefully through), LeCun (overblown), and 'p(doom)' became dinner-party shorthand. This page reports the debate; the site takes no position.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.