The Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research organisation, released a statement consisting of a single sentence: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." More than 350 researchers and executives signed, among them Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. Coverage focused on the fact that the people leading the work were describing its risks in the strongest available terms.