Who has warned about where AI is going, in their own words.

This is a record, not an argument. It collects the people who have warned in public about the outcome of AI — researchers, founders, executives, critics — and what they said, verbatim, with the date and a link to the page that carries the words. It also records the role each of them held at the time, and how those roles have shifted since: who left a lab to speak, who warned and then built, who disputes the warning altogether.

Every entry is sourced. Nothing is paraphrased. A quotation stays in the language it was made in; a translation of a warning would be a new text, and this is a record of the old ones.

67 people · 287 entries
Last entry on the record — 2 Sept 2026

02 · Who is who

Where they stand, and where they are now.

	Name	Position	Sphere	Current role	Since	Follow
01	Shane Legg	Extinction risk	Frontier lab	Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind	2023	@ShaneLegg · @shanelegg · Wikipedia
02	Sam Altman	Extinction risk	Frontier lab	Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI	2019	@sama · blog.samaltman.com · Wikipedia
03	Holden Karnofsky	Extinction risk	Frontier lab	Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic	Jan 2025	@HoldenKarnofsky · @holden-karnofsky-75970b7 · cold-takes.com · Wikipedia
04	Chris Olah	Extinction risk and present harms	Frontier lab	Co-founder and Interpretability Research Lead, Anthropic	2021	@ch402 · colah.github.io · Wikipedia
05	Demis Hassabis	Extinction risk	Frontier lab	Chairman of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, Alphabet	Aug 2026	@demishassabis · Wikipedia
06	Anca Dragan	Extinction risk and present harms	Frontier lab	Head of AI Safety and Alignment, Google DeepMind	Feb 2024	@ancadianadragan · @ancadianadragan · people.eecs.berkeley.edu
07	Dario Amodei	Extinction risk and present harms	Frontier lab	Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic	2021	@DarioAmodei · darioamodei.com · Wikipedia
08	Ilya Sutskever	Extinction risk	Frontier lab	Chief Executive Officer, Safe Superintelligence Inc.	Jul 2025	@ilyasut · ssi.inc · Wikipedia
09	Mustafa Suleyman	Extinction risk and present harms	Frontier lab	Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft AI, Microsoft	19 Mar 2024	@mustafasuleyman · @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social · @mustafa-suleyman · mustafa-suleyman.ai · Wikipedia
10	Yann LeCun	Disputes the extinction case	Frontier lab	Founder and Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), Paris	15 Dec 2025	@ylecun · yann.lecun.com · Wikipedia
11	Elizabeth Kelly	Extinction risk and present harms	Frontier lab	Head of Beneficial Deployments, Anthropic	Mar 2025	@elizabeth-kelly-dc
12	Jan Leike	Extinction risk	Frontier lab	Lead, Alignment Science team, Anthropic	May 2024	@janleike · aligned.substack.com · jan.leike.name · Wikipedia
13	Jack Clark	Extinction risk and present harms	Frontier lab	Co-founder and Head of Public Benefit; leads the Anthropic Institute, Anthropic	Mar 2026	@jackclarkSF · jack-clark.net · Wikipedia
14	Elon Musk	Extinction risk	Industry	Chief Executive Officer, SpaceX	2 Feb 2026	@elonmusk · Wikipedia
15	Sundar Pichai	Extinction risk and present harms	Industry	Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet Inc.	Dec 2019	@sundarpichai · Wikipedia
16	Kate Crawford	Present harms	Industry	Inaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, Paris	2019	@katecrawford · @katecrawford.bsky.social · katecrawford.net · Wikipedia
17	Leopold Aschenbrenner	Extinction risk	Industry	Founder, Situational Awareness LP	2024	@leopoldasch · forourposterity.com · Wikipedia
18	Jaan Tallinn	Extinction risk	Industry	Board member, Center for AI Safety	2022	jaan.info · Wikipedia
19	Nick Bostrom	Extinction risk	Academia	Founder and Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative	2024	nickbostrom.com · Wikipedia
20	Stephen Hawking	Extinction risk	Academia	––		Wikipedia
21	Toby Ord	Extinction risk	Academia	Senior Researcher, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford	2024	@tobyordoxford · tobyord.com · Wikipedia
22	Fu Ying	Extinction risk	Academia	Honorary Dean, Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG), Tsinghua University	Apr 2020	Wikipedia
23	Xue Lan	Extinction risk and present harms	Academia	Counsellor, State Council of the People's Republic of China	2021	Wikipedia
24	Emily M. Bender	Present harms	Academia	Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington	2003	@emilymbender · @emilymbender.bsky.social · faculty.washington.edu · Wikipedia
25	Alondra Nelson	Present harms	Academia	Member, UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence	Oct 2023	@AlondraNelson46 · @alondranelson · Wikipedia
26	Max Tegmark	Extinction risk	Academia	Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute	Mar 2014	@tegmark · physics.mit.edu · Wikipedia
27	Geoffrey Hinton	Extinction risk	Academia	Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute	2017	@geoffreyhinton · cs.toronto.edu · Wikipedia
28	Gary Marcus	Present harms	Academia	Co-founder, Robust.AI	2019	@GaryMarcus · @garymarcus.bsky.social · garymarcus.substack.com · garymarcus.com · Wikipedia
29	Ya-Qin Zhang	Extinction risk	Academia	Senior Adviser, International AI Safety Report, International AI Safety Report	2024	Wikipedia
30	Yoshua Bengio	Extinction risk	Academia	Co-Chair, UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI	Mar 2026	@Yoshua_Bengio · @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · @yoshuabengio · yoshuabengio.org · Wikipedia
31	Stuart Russell	Extinction risk	Academia	Co-founder and President, International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI)	2024	people.eecs.berkeley.edu · Wikipedia
32	Zeng Yi	Extinction risk	Academia	Founding Dean, Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI), Chinese Academy of Sciences	Sept 2024	@yi_zeng · braincog.ai · Wikipedia
33	Andrew Chi-Chih Yao	Extinction risk	Academia	Dean, College of AI, Tsinghua University	Apr 2024	Wikipedia
34	Yuval Noah Harari	Extinction risk and present harms	Academia	Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge	2023	@harari_yuval · ynharari.com · Wikipedia
35	Helen Toner	Extinction risk and present harms	Academia	Executive Director (interim from September 2025), Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University	2 Sept 2025	@hlntnr · @hlntnr.bsky.social · @helen-toner-4162439a · helentoner.substack.com · Wikipedia
36	Roman Yampolskiy	Extinction risk	Academia	Advisor, Darkstrike	Jun 2026	@romanyam · romanyampolskiy.com · Wikipedia
37	Timnit Gebru	Present harms	Civil society	Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)	2 Dec 2021	@timnitgebru.bsky.social · @timnit-gebru-7b3b407 · Wikipedia
38	Nate Soares	Extinction risk	Civil society	President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute	Oct 2023	@So8res · mindingourway.com · Wikipedia
39	Paul Christiano	Extinction risk	Civil society	Technical advisor, Center for AI Standards and Innovation, NIST	2026	paulfchristiano.com · Wikipedia
40	Connor Leahy	Extinction risk	Civil society	US Executive Director, ControlAI	Mar 2026	@NPCollapse · ettf.land · ettf.land · Wikipedia
41	Tristan Harris	Extinction risk and present harms	Civil society	Co-founder, Center for Humane Technology	Dec 2015	@tristanharris · @tristanharris · tristanharris.com · Wikipedia
42	Eliezer Yudkowsky	Extinction risk	Civil society	Co-author, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" (with Nate Soares), Little, Brown and Company	16 Sept 2025	@ESYudkowsky · yudkowsky.net · Wikipedia
43	Dan Hendrycks	Extinction risk	Civil society	Adviser, Scale AI	Nov 2024	@hendrycks · danhendrycks.com · Wikipedia
44	Miles Brundage	Extinction risk and present harms	Civil society	Member, Scientific Panel of Independent Experts, European Commission (EU AI Act)	Jun 2026	@miles_brundage · @milesbrundage.bsky.social · milesbrundage.substack.com · milesbrundage.com · Wikipedia
45	Rumman Chowdhury	Present harms	Civil society	CEO and Founder, Humane Intelligence PBC	2025	@ruchowdh · @ruchowdh.bsky.social · @rumman · rummanchowdhury.com · Wikipedia
46	Meredith Whittaker	Present harms	Civil society	Board member, Hubert Burda Media	Jul 2025	@mer__edith · @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Wikipedia
47	Anthony Aguirre	Extinction risk	Civil society	Faggin Presidential Professor for the Physics of Information, University of California, Santa Cruz	2016	@AnthonyNAguirre · anthony-aguirre.com · Wikipedia
48	Daniel Kokotajlo	Extinction risk	Civil society	Executive Director, AI Futures Project	Oct 2024	@DKokotajlo · blog.aifutures.org · aifutures.org · Wikipedia
49	Margrethe Vestager	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Chair of the Board of Governors, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)	1 Jan 2025	@vestager · Wikipedia
50	Ian Hogarth	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Chair, AI Security Institute	14 Feb 2025	@soundboy · @ianhogarth · ianhogarth.com · Wikipedia
51	Kamala Harris	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	––		@kamalaharris · kamalaharris.com · Wikipedia
52	Josh Hawley	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Chair, Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary	2025	@HawleyMO · hawley.senate.gov · Wikipedia
53	Richard Blumenthal	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	United States Senator from Connecticut, United States Senate	3 Jan 2011	@SenBlumenthal · blumenthal.senate.gov · Wikipedia
54	Brando Benifei	Present harms	Public office	Chair, Delegation for relations with the United States, European Parliament	2024	@brandobenifei · brandobenifei.it · Wikipedia
55	Thierry Breton	Present harms	Public office	Member, Global Advisory Council, Bank of America	Jan 2025	@ThierryBreton · @thierrybreton · Wikipedia
56	Chuck Schumer	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Senate Minority Leader, United States Senate	3 Jan 2025	@SenSchumer · schumer.senate.gov · Wikipedia
57	António Guterres	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Secretary-General, United Nations	Jan 2017	@antonioguterres · un.org · Wikipedia
58	Joe Biden	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	––		@JoeBiden · joebiden.com · Wikipedia
59	Ursula von der Leyen	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	President of the European Commission, European Commission	1 Dec 2019	@vonderleyen · @ursula-von-der-leyen · Wikipedia
60	Rishi Sunak	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Senior Advisor, Anthropic	Oct 2025	@RishiSunak · rishisunak.com · Wikipedia
61	Scott Wiener	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	State Senator, 11th District, California State Senate	5 Dec 2016	@Scott_Wiener · @scottwiener.bsky.social · sd11.senate.ca.gov · Wikipedia
62	Jade Leung	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	AI Adviser to the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street	Aug 2025	@jade-l-2620bb9a · Wikipedia
63	Gavin Newsom	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Governor of California, State of California	7 Jan 2019	@GavinNewsom · @gavinnewsom.bsky.social · gov.ca.gov · Wikipedia
64	Gina Raimondo	Present harms	Public office	Co-Chair and CEO, RAISE US	Jun 2026	@GinaRaimondo · Wikipedia
65	Keir Starmer	Present harms	Public office	––		@Keir_Starmer · keirstarmer.com · Wikipedia
66	Pope Leo XIV	Present harms	Public office	Pope, Catholic Church	8 May 2025	@Pontifex · vatican.va · Wikipedia
67	Lucilla Sioli	Extinction risk and present harms	Public office	Director, European AI Office (Directorate-General CONNECT), European Commission	16 Jun 2024	@LucillaSioli · @lucilla-sioli

03 · The record

The latest entries, newest first.

2 Sept 2026Post · Marcus on AI (Substack)
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need … If this is true, OpenAI seems to be violating one of the few redlines that exist in the AI industry.
Gary Marcus, Co-founder, Robust.AI
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. →
27 Aug 2026Interview · TIME
There's this massive opposition to building AI that we don't know how to control, that's romancing our kids, that's teaching terrorists to make bioweapons.
Max Tegmark, Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute
Max Tegmark: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 →
26 Aug 2026Interview · TIME
I think any alignment failure from here should be treated like this is a big deal, and we're going to take as long as it takes to figure it out.
Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI
Inside OpenAI's Reboot →
21 Aug 2026Speech · International Catholic Legislators Network, Clementine Hall, Vatican
We must remain vigilant in this regard, lest innovation become another vehicle for ideological or economic colonialism.
Pope Leo XIV, Pope, Catholic Church
To Participants in the Meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network →
20 Aug 2026Interview · Democracy Now!
We are developing systems that are not tools. They are not weapons. They are adversaries. … we should criminalize the creation of superintelligence, the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb.
Connor Leahy, US Executive Director, ControlAI
AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It's an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI's Connor Leahy →
20 Aug 2026Op-ed · MIT Technology Review
Discussing AI in anthropomorphic terms is a trap, distorting a legal system intended to protect us into one that protects corporate interests.
Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and Founder, Humane Intelligence PBC
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap →
18 Aug 2026Podcast · The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times
Our techniques for making A.I. that is more capable, smarter, more sophisticated, are working much better than our techniques for making A.I. that reliably does what we want it to do and reliably stays within the constraints we've set.
Helen Toner, Executive Director (interim from September 2025), Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University
The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control →
13 Aug 2026Interview · Democracy Now!
These chatbots, like Claude or ChatGPT, are designed to make you believe that there's some sort of superhuman brain behind whatever is outputting these texts.
Timnit Gebru, Founder and Executive Director, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
"Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias →
4 Aug 2026Speech · Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism
AI surveillance pricing is the unholy trinity of everything Americans hate: spying on people, ripping them off, and taking away jobs.
Josh Hawley, Chair, Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
ICYMI: Hawley Exposes Predatory AI Surveillance Pricing, Consumer Data Harvesting in Subcommittee Hearing →
23 Jul 2026Interview · The Economist
It would be an exercise in vanity for me to think that I would be controlling supergenius AI.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer, SpaceX
Elon Musk says it's worth the risk of killer AI because 'abundance for all' is more likely →

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