Press release from the Center for A.I. Safety San Francisco, CA – Distinguished AI scientists, including Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and leaders of the major AI labs, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, have signed a single-sentence statement from the Center for AI Safety that reads: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” This represents a historic coalition of AI experts. The coalition includes philosophers, legal scholars, economists, physicists, political scientists, pandemic scientists, nuclear scientists, and climate scientists. They are establishing the risk of extinction from advanced, future AI systems as one of the world’s most important problems. The statement affirms growing public sentiment: a recent poll found that 61 percent of Americans believe AI threatens humanity’s future. The increasing concern about the potential impacts of AI is reminiscent of early discussions about atomic energy. “We … [Read more...] about Top AI Scientists Warn: Risk of Extinction From AI on Scale with Nuclear War