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List of p(doom) values

p(doom) is the probability of very bad outcomes (e.g. human extinction) as a result of AI. This most often refers to the likelihood of AI taking over from humanity, but different scenarios can also constitute "doom". For example, a large portion of the population dying due to a novel biological weapon created by AI, social collapse due to a large-scale cyber attack, or AI causing a nuclear war. Note that not everyone is using the same definition when talking about their p(doom) values. Most notably the time horizon is often not specified, which makes comparing a bit difficult.

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  • 99.999999%

    Roman Yampolskiy
    AI safety scientist

  • >95%

    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    Founder of MIRI

  • >80%

    Dan Hendrycks
    Head of Center for AI Safety

  • 70%

    Daniel Kokotajlo
    Forecaster & former OpenAI researcher

  • 60%

    Zvi Mowshowitz
    Independent AI safety journalist

  • 10-90%

    Holden Karnofsky
    Co-founder of Open Philanthropy

  • 10-90%

    Jan Leike
    Former alignment lead at OpenAI

  • 46%

    Paul Christiano
    Head of AI safety, US AI Safety Institute, formerly OpenAI, founded ARC

  • 40%

    AI engineer

    (Estimate mean value, survey methodology may be flawed)
  • 40%

    Joep Meindertsma
    Founder of PauseAI

    (The remaining 60% consists largely of "we can pause".)
  • 35%

    Eli Lifland
    Top competitive forecaster

  • 33%

    Scott Alexander
    Popular Internet blogger at Astral Codex Ten

  • 30%

    AI Safety Researchers

    (Mean from 44 AI safety researchers in 2021)
  • 10-50%

    Geoff Hinton
    one of three godfathers of AI

    (Recently said "Kinda 50-50" on good outcomes for humanity. Earlier he mentioned 10%.)
  • 5-50%

    Emmett Shear
    Co-founder of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI

  • 20%

    Reid Hoffman
    Co-founder of LinkedIn

  • 20%

    Yoshua Bengio
    one of three godfathers of AI

  • 10-25%

    Dario Amodei
    CEO of Anthropic

  • 15%

    Lina Khan
    head of FTC

  • 10-20%

    Elon Musk
    CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X

  • 9-19.4%

    Machine learning researchers

    (Mean in 2023, depending on the question design, median values: 5-10%)
  • 10%

    Vitalik Buterin
    Ethereum founder

  • 0.38%

    Forecasting Research Institute Superforecasters

    (From the same study: Domain experts estimated 3% AI x-risk, and AI catastrophe at 12%)
  • <0.01%

    Yann LeCun
    one of three godfathers of AI, works at Meta

    (less likely than an asteroid)

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