https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgwy94/ai-ceos-say-ai-poses-risk-of-extinction-are-trying-to-find-the-guy-who-did-this > Hundreds of AI researchers, CEOs, and engineers signed a statement warning that AI has as much of a possibility to cause extinction as pandemics and nuclear war. > “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement reads. It was signed by top AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI Co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, Google’s DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, among hundreds of others.