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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
The one-sentence Center for AI Safety ‘Statement on AI Risk,’ signed by more than 350 executives, researchers and engineers — including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic and Turing laureates Hinton and Bengio. A forward-looking, unfalsifiable claim about catastrophic risk; recorded as the field’s highest-profile collective warning, not as a checkable prediction. Yann LeCun of Meta pointedly did not sign.