42 Royal Society fellows urge AI risk emergency treatment; some cite >10% doom odds
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-17
42 fellows and foreign members of the Royal Society, including mathematician Timothy Gowers, signed a letter to president Paul Nurse urging that serious AI risks be treated as an emergency. The retweeter notes mathematicians show notable AI worry (e.g., P(doom within decade) > 10%), but argues this community isn't particularly knowledgeable about or deeply engaged with AI.
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