# The statement on extinction risk (2023): SI History

> Lab leaders and researchers sign a one sentence statement: reducing the risk of extinction from the technology should be a global priority alongside.

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# The statement on extinction risk (2023)

Lab leaders and researchers sign a one sentence statement: reducing the risk of extinction from the technology should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

Date
:   May 2023

Type
:   Milestone

Status
:   Happened

Era
:   2023

## What happened

Lab leaders and researchers sign a one sentence statement: reducing the risk of extinction from the technology should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

## Why it matters

The statement was deliberately short so that people who disagreed on almost everything else could sign it. Signatories included heads of leading labs and many of the most cited researchers in the field.

## Source

1. [Center for AI Safety](https://safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk)

## On the timeline

This event is one of 20 milestones on the [RSI timeline](https://enterrsi.si/timeline/), from 1950 to SI building SI.

The event

Date
:   May 30, 2023

Type
:   Timeline milestone

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[Existential risk **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/existential-risk/)[p(doom) **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/p-doom/)

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