<p>World's top AI researchers and industry leaders have reinforced the techie community's warnings about existential threat they say AI poses to humanity.</p>

<p>The succinct statement, issued by San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety's portal, has been issued with the aim to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI's most severe risks seriously.</p>

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<p>The statement has been co-signed by big names,&nbsp;including Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as Geoffrey Hinton and Youshua Bengio; the two researchers who won the 2018 Turing Award.</p>

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<p>"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 signed by some of the world's top AI functionaries said.</p>

<p>The statement, comprising just 22 words, has been trimmed, in order to overcome the obstacles related to developing discourse of a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from Artificial Intelligence.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>The statement is deemed the latest intervention in the ongoing&nbsp;debate over AI safety.</p>

<p>Earlier this year, an open letter&nbsp;signed by some of the same individuals backing the 22-word warning called for a six-month "pause" to AI development. The letter, however,&nbsp;was criticised on multiple levels. Some experts thought it overstated the risk posed by Artificial Intelligence. However, others agreed with the risk but said that a "pause" in the development of AI-related products&nbsp;was unnecessary.</p>

<p>The big statement on Tuesday has equated the risks posed by evolving realms of Artificial Intelligence to that of nuclear disasters and pandemics, both capable of stoking an extinction-level event.</p>

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World's top AI researchers and industry leaders have reinforced the techie community's warnings about existential threat they say AI poses to humanity. The succinct statement, issued by San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety's portal, has been issued with the aim to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI's most severe risks seriously.

World's top AI researchers and industry leaders have reinforced the techie community's warnings about existential threat they say AI poses to humanity. The succinct statement, issued by San Francisco-based Center for AI Safety's portal, has been issued with the aim to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI's most severe risks seriously. How AI poses existential threat to humanity: The big statement The statement has been co-signed by big names, including Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as Geoffrey Hinton and Youshua Bengio; the two researchers who won the 2018 Turing Award. ALSO READ | 'Godfather of AI' quits Google, says chatbots may become 'more intelligent than us' "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 signed by some of the world's top AI functionaries said. The statement, comprising just 22 words, has been trimmed, in order to overcome the obstacles related to developing discourse of a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from Artificial Intelligence. ALSO WATCH | Gravitas: Is AI going to replace your brain? × The statement is deemed the latest intervention in the ongoing debate over AI safety. Earlier this year, an open letter signed by some of the same individuals backing the 22-word warning called for a six-month "pause" to AI development. The letter, however, was criticised on multiple levels. Some experts thought it overstated the risk posed by Artificial Intelligence. However, others agreed with the risk but said that a "pause" in the development of AI-related products was unnecessary. The big statement on Tuesday has equated the risks posed by evolving realms of Artificial Intelligence to that of nuclear disasters and pandemics, both capable of stoking an extinction-level event. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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Artificial Intelligence poses 'risk of extinction', warn industry leaders