The p(doom) database · person

Arthur Conmy’s p(doom)

>10%
Researcher, Anthropic (previously Google DeepMind) · frontier labs · Sep 22, 2026

In their words

Arthur Conmy (Researcher, Anthropic (previously Google DeepMind)) put their p(doom) at >10% (p(doom) without a slowdown or pause), on X on Sep 22, 2026.

I'm a bit late to the chatter but do think that without slowdown or pause, p(doom)>0.1

Source · re-checked against the primary source.

Conditional: "without slowdown or pause".

In context

Among frontier labs in the database (20 people), the median is 12.5%. Across all 223 people it is 10%. How the medians and the index are built.

A p(doom) is a personal, subjective estimate of the probability that advanced AI ends in human extinction or a comparable, irreversible catastrophe. Scope and timeframe differ from person to person, so compare with care: why p(doom) numbers disagree.

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