AI poses an existential threat to humanity

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  Developing strong AI would be the biggest event in human history, but we need to make sure it's not the last event in human history. Unverified source

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  AI researcher and writer

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  votes For and says:

  the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,” but as in “that is the obvious thing that... more Verified source (2023)

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  votes For and says:

  I used to think it was a long way off, but I now think it's serious and fairly close [...] The alarm bell I’m ringing has to do with the existential threat of them taking control. Unverified source

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  Emmett Shear

  Entrepreneur; former OpenAI interim CEO

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  votes For and says:

  I know that Eliezer thinks that like, we’re all doomed for sure. I buy his doom argument. My p(doom)[...] between 5 and 50 [percent]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Emad Mostaque

  Stability AI founder

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  I don’t get folk who say there is no existential risk from AGI. [...] There’s so many ways to wipe out humanity [...] Unverified source (2023)

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  Kai-Fu Lee

  AI entrepreneur and author

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  My view is that autonomous weapons are the most dangerous existential threat that AI poses to humanity. Unverified source (2021)

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  Sir Clive Sinclair

  British inventor and entrepreneur

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  Once you start to make machines that are rivalling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it's going to be very difficult for us to survive. Unverified source (2014)

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  Steve Wozniak

  Apple co-founder

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  If we build these devices [...] eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans. Unverified source (2015)

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  Vernor Vinge

  Science fiction author and computer scientist

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  Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Unverified source (1993)

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  Shannon Vallor

  Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh

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  That’s the existential threat, because that’s what will enable humans to feel like we can just take our hands off the wheel [...] Unverified source (2024)

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  Dario Amodei

  Research Scientist at OpenAI

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  There's a 25% chance that the future of AI will go “really, really badly,” Unverified source (2025)

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  Sam Harris

  American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist

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  votes For and says:

  I’m going to describe how the gains we make in artificial intelligence could ultimately destroy us. Unverified source (2016)

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  AI Safety and Governance Fund

  AI-safety advocacy organization

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  AI could end humanity. We're working to prevent that. Unverified source

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  Ben Bernanke

  Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair

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  votes For and says:

  A clearly written and compelling account of the existential risks that highly advanced AI could pose to humanity Unverified source (2025)

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  Kamala Harris

  U.S. Vice President, 2021–2025

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  votes For and says:

  These threats are often referred to as the “existential threats of AI” because, of course, they could endanger the very existence of humanity. Unverified source (2023)

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  Michael Vassar

  Futurist and entrepreneur

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  If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, [...] the human species will be extinct in very short order. Unverified source

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  Roman Yampolskiy

  AI safety and security researcher

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  votes For and says:

  If we create general superintelligences, I don’t see a good outcome long-term for humanity. So there is X-risk, existential risk, everyone’s dead. Unverified source (2024)

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  Vitalik Buterin

  Ethereum cofounder; technologist

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  But a superintelligent AI, if it decides to turn against us, may well leave no survivors and end humanity for good. Unverified source (2023)

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  Toby Ord

  Oxford philosopher; The Precipice author

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  These were 1 in 1,000 for Climate and for Nuclear, 1 in 30 for Pandemics and 1 in 10 for Unaligned AI. Unverified source (2024)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  votes For and says:

  which increased my awareness of a possible existential risk for humanity if we do not maintain control over superhuman AI systems. Unverified source (2023)

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  James Cameron

  Film director; Titanic and Avatar

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  votes For and says:

  I do think there’s still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse where you put AI together with weapons systems [...] Unverified source (2025)

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  Rishi Sunak

  Former UK prime minister

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  And in the most unlikely but extreme cases, there is even the risk that humanity could lose control of AI completely… Unverified source (2023)

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  votes For and says:

  With AI, [...] constitutes an existential threat to the survival of human civilisation. Unverified source (2023)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  votes For and says:

  they threaten to upend life as we know it: the climate crisis and the ungoverned expansion of artificial intelligence. Unverified source (2025)

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  Pia Lauritzen

  Danish philosopher and leadership adviser

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  votes For and says:

  It poses an existential threat because it offers answers faster than humans can ask the questions that help them contemplate their existence. Unverified source (2025)

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  Elon Musk

  Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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  votes For and says:

  AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don't think people fully appreciate that, Unverified source (2017)

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  Jaan Tallinn

  Skype co-founder and AI safety donor

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  votes For and says:

  anyone working at AI labs who thinks the risk of training the next-generation model "blowing up the planet" is less than 1%. Unverified source

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  votes For and says:

  the greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, Unverified source (2017)

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  votes For and says:

  if we humans lose control over our society to machines that are much smarter than us, then things can go just as bad for us. Unverified source (2023)

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  Bill Joy

  Sun Microsystems cofounder; computer scientist

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  votes For and says:

  How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in computing power seem to make it possible by 2030. And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species—to an intelligent robot that can make evolved... more Unverified source (2000)

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  Stephen Hawking

  Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

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  votes For and says:

  The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Unverified source (2014)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen (for example, an engineered virus with a long incubation ... more Unverified source (2015)

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  Ray Kurzweil

  Author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist

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  Or we see the AI battling the humans for world domination. But this is not how AI is being integrated into the world today. Unverified source (2014)

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  votes Against and says:

  I just think that the existential-risk stuff has been [...] a completely bonkers distraction. There’s like 101 more practical issues [...] from privacy to bias [...]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Toby Walsh

  Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence

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  Some tech leaders think AI could outsmart us and wipe out humanity. I’m a professor of AI – and I’m not worried. Unverified source (2025)

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  Eric Horvitz

  Microsoft Chief Scientist

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  There have been concerns [...] that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen. Unverified source (2015)

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  Michael Wooldridge

  Oxford AI professor; multi-agent systems expert

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  votes Against and says:

  In all the discussion around existential threat, nobody has ever given me a plausible scenario for how AI might be an existential risk. Unverified source (2024)

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  Marc Andreessen

  General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape

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  My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. Unverified source (2023)

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  Eric Schmidt

  Former Google CEO; tech investor

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  That, by the way, is a movie, OK? That's a movie, it's not true. Unverified source (2017)

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  Mark Zuckerberg

  Meta CEO; Facebook co-founder

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  votes Against and says:

  I think that people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios — [...] I actually think it is pretty irresponsible. Unverified source (2017)

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  Noel Sharkey

  Emeritus AI and robotics professor

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  votes Against and says:

  AI poses many dangers to humanity but there is no existential threat or any evidence for one. Unverified source (2023)

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  Joanna Bryson

  AI ethics researcher

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  votes Against and says:

  But it's not an existential threat, [...] It's just a horrible, awful weapon. Unverified source (2023)

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  Rodney Brooks

  Roboticist; former MIT CSAIL director

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  votes Against and says:

  he does a good job of arguing against the hysteria that Artificial Intelligence is an existential threat to humanity. Unverified source (2017)

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  Cassie Kozyrkov

  Decision scientist; AI advisor

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  votes Against and says:

  Using AI responsibly is our human responsibility. I’m not scared at all, AI is just a tool. But am i scared of people? Maybe. Unverified source (2019)

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  Steven Pinker

  Cognitive scientist and author

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  votes Against and says:

  I think it's also extremely unlikely [...] an explosion of artificial intelligence [...] run away from us faster than we can pull the plug Unverified source (2018)

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  Oren Etzioni

  AI2 founder; UW professor

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  AI is not going to exterminate us, it’s going to empower us, [...] AI has a huge potential benefit for humanity. Unverified source (2016)

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  Rashik Parmar

  BCS CEO; IT professional body leader

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  votes Against and says:

  Over 1,300 technologists and leaders signed our open letter calling AI a force for good rather than an existential threat to humanity. Unverified source (2023)

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  Edward Moore Geist

  Historian of science and nuclear policy

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  votes Against and says:

  The risks of self-improving intelligent machines are grossly exaggerated and ought not serve as a distraction from the existential risks we already face. Unverified source (2015)

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  Eva Hamrud

  Science writer covering AI and technology

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  votes Against and says:

  Despite this, it currently seems to be unlikely to become an existential threat to humanity. Unverified source (2021)

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  Andrew Ng

  Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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  votes Against and says:

  There’s also a lot of hype, that AI will create evil robots with super-intelligence. That’s an unnecessary distraction, Unverified source (2015)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  AI is a "threat to democracy, not to humanity", Unverified source (2023)

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  Melanie Mitchell

  AI researcher; complexity scientist and author

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  votes Against and says:

  There are a lot of kinds of dangers with AI. It can be used to produce disinformation and deepfakes. There are algorithmic biases, like the one I mentioned in the case of facial recognition. Hinton and others go further and say these systems could ac... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  The point is, AI systems, as smart as they might be, will be subservient to us. We set their goals, and they don't have any intrinsic goal that we would build into them to dominate. It would be really stupid to build that. It would also be useless. N... more Unverified source (2024)

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