Yoshua Bengio—Signed statement declaring AI extinction risk a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war
Bengio joined Geoffrey Hinton, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and hundreds of AI researchers and executives in signing a statement published by the Center for AI Safety: 'Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.' This represented landmark consensus among AI's leading researchers on existential risk.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Safety | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.885 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Bengio signed CAIS statement on AI extinction risk as global priority
Bengio was among hundreds of AI researchers and industry leaders who signed the Center for AI Safety one-sentence statement in May 2023 declaring AI extinction risk should be a global priority.