source · primary doc

Statement on AI Risk

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https://aistatement.com/

reliability

0.90

authors: Center for AI Safety

published: 2023-05-30

accessed: 2026-04-19

Notes

Primary-source open letter published by CAIS with public signatory list. Reliability at prior for primary_doc; signatory affiliations are self-reported but the statement text itself is the artifact.

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Evidence from this source (5)

Signatories of the CAIS Statement on AI Risk include the sitting CEOs of the th… support

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0.95

method: primary_testimony · locator: Signatories list

“Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI ... Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind ... Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic”
Signatories of the CAIS Statement on AI Risk include Turing Award winners Geoff… support

weight

0.90

method: primary_testimony · locator: Signatories list

“Geoffrey Hinton, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto ... Yoshua Bengio ... Andrew Barto ... Joseph Sifakis, Turing Award 2007”
The May 2023 Center for AI Safety 'Statement on AI Risk' consists of a single s… support

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1.00

method: primary_testimony · locator: The statement: (single-sentence block)

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Signatories of the CAIS Statement on AI Risk include researchers affiliated wit… support

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0.90

method: primary_testimony · locator: Signatories list

“Ya-Qin Zhang, Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University ... Yi Zeng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences ... Jianyi Zhang, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute”
CAIS states the Statement on AI Risk was designed with two explicit purposes: t… support

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method: primary_testimony · locator: Preamble above the statement

“The succinct statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion. It is also meant to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI's most severe risks seriously.”