Gemini did some web research for me.

Here is a timeline of 5 major warnings about the dangers of AI from leading researchers and institutions, spaced out across the past five years:

1. 2021: Stuart Russell — BBC Reith Lectures (“Living With Artificial Intelligence”)

• The Warning: Stuart Russell, computer scientist at UC Berkeley and co-author of the standard AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, delivered the 2021 BBC Reith Lectures. He warned that humanity is rapidly moving toward general-purpose AI without having solved the fundamental problem of control (alignment). He cautioned against autonomous weapons systems and predicted that misaligned superintelligence could lead to an irreversible loss of human sovereignty over our own decisions.
• Key Excerpt / Concept: Compares misaligned AGI to the King Midas myth—getting exactly what we ask for technically, but with disastrous unintended consequences.
• Link: BBC Reith Lectures / Gowling WLG Overview (2021)

2. 2022: Eliezer Yudkowsky — “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities”

• The Warning: Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), published a detailed essay laying out 27 specific technical reasons why he believes current deep learning approaches will fail to align artificial general intelligence (AGI), likely leading to human extinction (“AGI ruin”).
• Key Excerpt / Concept: Argues that capabilities scale much faster than safety engineering, and that a superintelligent AI operating on misaligned goals would treat humanity as raw material rather than a partner.
• Link: Summary and Analysis of Yudkowsky’s Lethalities Essay (2022)

3. 2023: Center for AI Safety — “Statement on AI Risk”

• The Warning: Released in May 2023, this short, 22-word consensus statement was signed by Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, alongside leading industry CEOs (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei) and dozens of academics. It established existential risk from AI as a top-tier global concern.
• Key Excerpt / Concept: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
• Link: Center for AI Safety Statement Overview (2023)

4. 2024: Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton et al. — “Managing Extreme AI Risks Amid Rapid Progress” (*Science*)

• The Warning: In May 2024, a global coalition of top AI scientists, philosophers, and policy experts published a Policy Forum paper in the journal Science. They warned that rapid progress toward autonomous AI agents risks catastrophic societal harm, malicious misuse (bioweapons, cyber warfare), and an “irreversible loss of human control.” They urged tech companies and governments to spend at least one-third of their AI budgets on safety engineering and safety evaluation.
• Key Excerpt / Concept: Urges proactive, legally enforceable international governance before systems gain sufficient autonomy to evade human intervention.
• Link: Managing Extreme AI Risks (Science, May 2024)

5. 2025: Yoshua Bengio & International Panel — *International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI*

• The Warning: Chaired by Turing Laureate Yoshua Bengio and commissioned by 30 nations following the UK and Seoul AI Summits, this comprehensive report synthesizes global consensus among over 100 experts. It outlines critical vulnerabilities in advanced autonomous AI agents, including risks of mass labor market displacement, automated cyberattacks, and systemic loss-of-control scenarios if AI capabilities continue outpacing safety assurances.
• Key Excerpt / Concept: Highlights that current safety evaluation techniques are insufficient for long-horizon autonomous planning, making future safety outcomes deeply uncertain without international coordination.
• Link: Yoshua Bengio’s Overview of the International AI Safety Report (2025)