A third of published ML researchers say AI extinction risk exceeds 10%, 2023 survey shows
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-10
Ben Todd notes that belief in potential AI catastrophe is widespread among researchers: in a 2023 survey, a third of published ML researchers put the chance of AI causing human extinction above 10%. He adds that academics skew deflationary because the bullish ones left for industry — and such concerns are even more common among frontier-company researchers.
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