Who’s Who In The Fight Over Whether AI Will Kill Us

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Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems.

Sep 24, 2026, 01:10pm EDT

Jacob Coxon isn’t the first AI researcher to sound the alarm about the risk of advanced AI. Below is a list of more than 100 AI experts and technologists staking out their positions on whether catastrophic risk is real or overblown. The list includes CEOs of leading AI companies and researchers working on alignment—the challenge of keeping AI actions aligned with human values—both inside and outside frontier labs and at universities, publicly funded research institutes and independent safety organizations. It also includes academics studying AI, cognition and intelligence, as well as leaders in the open-source and open-weight community where AI models can be downloaded and customized.

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