The request, in plain language.
A concise public statement of concern, alongside other risks of societal scale.
The statement does not specify a training pause, licensing system or model-release policy. Its current source page uses the title Statement on AI Extinction Risk.
The implementation question
Which practical policies would follow from this shared priority?
A question for inquiry, not a finding about the authors’ intentions.
Keep the source and the reading apart.
This record summarizes a published position. The links below connect it to related documents, available research and an open follow-through record. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and a request is not proof of action.
Explore the evidence
Ethical and social risks of harm from Language ModelsRead the inquiry
Agreement is a beginning. A plan needs an owner.What happened afterwards?
Open the follow-through recordTry the mechanism
The accountability labRecord history
25 Sept 2026 · Source-linked summary added to the archive. Original publication: 30 May 2023. Publication date confirmed by the publisher’s press release. Full source text has not been republished or preserved as a historical capture in this edition.