The p(doom) database · person

Onufry Wojtaszczyk’s p(doom)

>50%
Senior staff software engineer, Google Cloud (AI infrastructure); ICPC World Finals judge · building AI · Sep 12, 2026

In their words

Onufry Wojtaszczyk (Senior staff software engineer, Google Cloud (AI infrastructure); ICPC World Finals judge) put their p(doom) at >50%, on X on Sep 12, 2026.

And my p(doom) > 50%.

Source · re-checked against the primary source.

Says his posts are his own, not Google's.

In context

Among building AI in the database (31 people), the median is 0.5%. 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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