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The stakes are potentially existential. Advanced AI could bring unprecedented prosperity, but it could also lead to humanity going extinct or losing the ability to shape its own future.
AI Verified (May 18, 2026)
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The 80,000 Hours team, “Our strategy at 80,000 Hours,” published May 18, 2026. The page presents the passage as an organization-wide strategy view.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified Full coverage: “Advanced AI” supplies the actor; “stakes are potentially existential” and “lead to humanity going extinct or losing the ability to shape its own future” supply the existential threat to humanity. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The recorded “for” matches the quote: it explicitly says advanced AI could produce existential outcomes, including human extinction or permanent loss of humanity’s agency. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The 80,000 Hours page credits The 80,000 Hours team, is dated May 18, 2026, and contains the stored wording verbatim in its organization-wide strategy. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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