Quarter of AI researchers put human extinction risk above 25%, survey finds
KatjaGrace · x · 2026-09-10
Katja Grace shares new survey data on AI researcher risk beliefs: the median researcher assigned 10% probability to human extinction or extreme disempowerment, and a quarter of respondents put the figure above 25%. Full distributions for three similar questions and the combined result are included.
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