Claim · 2023-05-30 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The Center for AI Safety statement of May 2023 states that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

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What it connects

Statement on AI Risk → articulates → Risk of extinction or comparable catastrophe

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Statement on AI Riskarticulates ↓Risk of extinction or comparable catastrophe

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2023-05-30 · publication Records dated 2023 →
Role: Articulation, Earliest located use of the name
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Name used: “risk of extinction”

Scope and limitsA one-sentence signed statement; it names no route to extinction and gives no estimate. It records what the statement says, not the views of each signatory beyond its words.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Statement on AI Risk

Center for AI Safety (safe.ai) · 2023-05-30

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Source excerpt

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

Location in source Statement text

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Center for AI Safety
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 5182f23e290c75616fa4c91ea580711fa55874658e514894921ba15207778d21). Current statement page with preamble, statement and signatory list; the page states no revision. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. The current page does not print the date of 30 May 2023; the cross-family check of 2026-10-31 could not confirm it from this page.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Center for AI Safety, “Statement on AI Risk”, 2023-05-30.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (22 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 104) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review.

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Record ID rd-r07-cais-2023-statement