2023 AI researcher surveys show extinction concerns are long-held mainstream views
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to EvanHub's statement that AI could kill all humans, the poster notes this is an extremely common and well-documented view in the field, and has been for years.
They cite 2023 survey results of AI researchers as evidence that extinction-risk concerns among frontier lab practitioners are neither new nor fringe.
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