A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
This work addresses catastrophic AI risks for humanity by categorizing extreme scenarios to inform preventive measures.
The authors developed a taxonomy of potential AI-driven omnicidal scenarios where nearly all humans could be killed, aiming to highlight these risks as avoidable possibilities rather than inevitabilities.
This report presents a taxonomy and examples of potential omnicidal events resulting from AI: scenarios where all or almost all humans are killed. These events are not presented as inevitable, but as possibilities that we can work to avoid. Insofar as large institutions require a degree of public support in order to take certain actions, we hope that by presenting these possibilities in public, we can help to support preventive measures against catastrophic risks from AI.