Toby Ord estimates a 10% century-scale risk of losing control to unaligned AI
In a full interview about The Precipice, Toby Ord estimates a 10% chance that unaligned AI causes humanity to lose control of its future within a century. He decomposes that forecast into a 50% chance of developing systems more intelligent than humanity and an 80% conditional chance of surviving that transition while retaining control.
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Why it moved the index
Ord's explicit forecast and decomposition add a distinct, uncertainty-aware argument that developing systems more intelligent than humanity creates a material risk of permanently losing human control, while remaining a forecast rather than an observed event.
Assessment history
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Toward 30 · confidence 68
Adds a previously absent, exactly timestamped first-person 2020 forecast and control argument from Toby Ord's complete interview.
21 Sept 2026
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DoomBench assesses “Toby Ord estimates a 10% century-scale risk of losing control to unaligned AI” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 30 and confidence 68 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.
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DoomBench summarizes “Toby Ord estimates a 10% century-scale risk of losing control to unaligned AI” as follows: In a full interview about The Precipice, Toby Ord estimates a 10% chance that unaligned AI causes humanity to lose control...
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