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Emad Mostaque

Co-founder of Stability AI; founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet

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Sufficiently capable AI that can spread, that basically decides that the only way to stop another AI from coming about is to get rid of all the humans.

Emad Mostaque

Co-founder of Stability AI; founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet

Asked for his mainline doom scenario in an April 2026 Doom Debates interview, Emad Mostaque described a sufficiently capable AI that can spread and decides the only way to stop another AI from coming about is to get rid of all the humans.

Founder and CEO of Intelligent InternetPublished April 21, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedDoom Debates

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Do the Monte Carlo simulation, right? It’ll land on one scenario that’s plausible, and tell me that scenario. Emad 0:50:28 Sufficiently capable AI that can spread, that basically decides that the only way to stop another AI from coming about is to get rid of all the humans. Liron 0:50:44 Right, right. But yeah, I mean, that’s totally rational. And when...

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I think it would be. I think it’s probably too late, to be honest. And I think it just won’t work from my geopolitical hat. I used to be a geopolitical advisor to multiple governments. The race is on. Everyone knows this is the big thing. No one’s gonna do it.

Emad Mostaque

Co-founder of Stability AI; founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet

Asked whether an international treaty to pause AI would be valuable, Emad Mostaque said in an April 2026 interview that it would be, but that it is probably too late and will not work geopolitically, because the race is on and no one is going to do it.

Founder and CEO of Intelligent InternetPublished April 21, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedDoom Debates

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Pausing AI should be this major policy on the table, if not now, then soon or sometime. Do you think that would be a valuable international treaty to have? Emad 1:36:48 I think it would be. I think it’s probably too late, to be honest. And I think it just won’t work from my geopolitical hat. I used to be a geopolitical advisor to multiple governments. The race is on. Everyone knows this is the big thing. No one’s gonna do it. Liron 1:37:04 I agree. When you and I put on our geopolitical hats, we say pausing sure is hard, especially because you get so much benefit from not pausing. I agree. Geopolitical consensus here, okay?

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The question put to him was MIRI's proposal for a treaty with a ready off-switch, not the 2023 six-month pause letter; the answer should not be generalised to every possible AI regulation.
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My P(Doom) is fifty percent.

Emad Mostaque

Co-founder of Stability AI; founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet

Asked for his P(Doom) in an April 2026 Doom Debates interview, Emad Mostaque said it is fifty percent.

Founder and CEO of Intelligent InternetPublished April 21, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedDoom Debates

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Here we go. Emad 00:09:34 P(Doom). P(Doom). What’s your P(Doom)? What’s your P(Doom)? What’s your P(Doom)? Liron 00:09:40 And Emad Mostaque, remind us, what is your P(Doom)? Emad 00:09:44 My P(Doom) is fifty percent. Liron 00:09:46 Okay. Can you unpack that for us? Emad 00:09:48 I think that artificial intelligence as we see it is the most capable technology we’ve ever built, and maybe the final technology we build. The outcomes are just very binary.

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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Signed statement: “Statement on AI Extinction Risk” (CAIS)

Emad Mostaque

Co-founder of Stability AI; founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet

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Emad Mostaque signed the “Statement on AI Extinction Risk,” which says reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.

CEO, Stability AIDate not establishedStatement on AI Extinction Risk

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University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute AI Scientists Erik Brynjolfsson Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI Other Notable Figures Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Inflection AI Other Notable Figures Emad Mostaque CEO, Stability AI Other Notable Figures Ian Goodfellow Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind AI Scientists John Schulman Co-Founder, OpenAI AI Scientists Wojciech Zaremba Co-Founder, OpenAI AI Scientists Dan Hendrycks Executive Director,

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