# Center for AI Safety **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Existential Risk / Safety Policy **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The **Center for AI Safety (CAIS)** is the organization that published the 30 May 2023 “Statement on AI Risk,” calling for the mitigation of AI extinction risk to be treated as a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. The statement lists individual signatories; it is a public advocacy statement, not a quantitative estimate of extinction probability. ## Corpus Context The statement belongs in the [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] and [[wiki/Existential Risk|Existential Risk]] debate. Its significance is the explicit, concise priority claim and the public roster of signatories; it does not resolve competing assessments of likelihood, timelines, or appropriate policy. [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] supplies the separate technical and ecological discussion of what could persist or proliferate. ## Relationships - **Published statement:** “Statement on AI Risk” (30 May 2023). - **Named participants:** The [statement page](https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk) supplies its own signatory roster; signing does not imply that every participant endorses every possible AI-risk scenario. - **Conceptual routes:** [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] and [[wiki/Existential Risk|Existential Risk]]. - **Collection route:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. - **Source article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." > **— Center for AI Safety**, *30 May 2023, “Statement on AI Risk”* [[reminders/Existential Risk/AI Extinction Risk Is a Global Priority by Center for AI Safety|AI Extinction Risk Is a Global Priority by Center for AI Safety]] ## Sources / Provenance - [“Statement on AI Extinction Risk” and signatories](https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk).