The p(doom) database · person

Connor Leahy’s p(doom)

≈99%
CEO, Conjecture · safety orgs · Jul 21, 2022

In their words

Connor Leahy (CEO, Conjecture) put their p(doom) at ≈99% (AI doom), on a podcast on Jul 21, 2022.

you could be at 99% probability of doom, but have like five or 10% error bars. — Yes, that's kind of my thinking.

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Host's framing, which he affirmed; "not as pessimistic as Eliezer but pretty close."

In context

Among safety orgs in the database (28 people), the median is 50%. 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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