---
aliases:
  en:
  - AI x-risk
  - existential risk from AI
concept_id: ai_existential_risk
preferred:
  en: AI existential risk
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - ai_risk
    - existential_risk
    prerequisite:
    - ai_risk
    - existential_risk
    related:
    - alignment_risk
    - misaligned_power_seeking
status: active
---

# AI existential risk

An existential risk whose causal pathway substantially involves artificial intelligence, including scenarios in which advanced AI systems cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's long-run potential.

## broader

- [AI risk](../terminology/ai_risk.txt)
- [existential risk](../terminology/existential_risk.txt)

## prerequisite

- [AI risk](../terminology/ai_risk.txt)
- [existential risk](../terminology/existential_risk.txt)

## related

- [alignment risk](../terminology/alignment_risk.txt)
- [misaligned power-seeking](../terminology/misaligned_power_seeking.txt)

## Documents: about

- [強力なAIが人類から不可逆的に支配権を奪う展開には相当な可能性がある](../documents/christiano.high-ai-disempowerment-risk.txt)
- [現在と大きく変わらない条件で人間を上回るAIを作れば、人類絶滅が最も可能性の高い結果となる](../documents/yudkowsky.superhuman-ai-under-current-conditions-would-likely-cause-extinction.txt)

## Documents: mentions

- [AI開発競争の圧力は安全のための制約を弱め得る](../documents/bioshok.ai-race-pressure-can-undermine-safety-restraints.txt)
- [「doom」を単一確率に畳まず、複数の重大なリスクを区別して見積もる](../documents/christiano.doom-is-serious-but-not-modal.txt)
- [Yudkowsky との相違は、危険に至る経路とそれまでに取れる対応の見通しにある](../documents/christiano.gradual-progress-and-policy-response.txt)
- [アラインメントは最初の危険な試行で成功する必要がある](../documents/yudkowsky.first-critical-try.txt)
- [Yudkowskyによる "大規模なAI学習を世界規模で無期限に停止し、計算資源規制を国際的に執行する案"](../documents/yudkowsky.international-compute-shutdown-and-enforcement.txt)
- [pivotal actには、世界を大きく変えられるほど強いシステムのアラインメントが必要になる](../documents/yudkowsky.pivotal-act-requires-aligning-a-system-capable-of-a-large-intervention.txt)

[Corpus index](../index.txt)