FAR.AI interviews 17 AI safety experts to map the AI risk landscape

FAR.AI researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 AI safety experts to survey consensus, controversies, and fringe views in the field regarding big-picture AI risks. Most respondents expected the first human-level AI to continue the current LLM paradigm and further scale up, and the most frequently mentioned existential catastrophe pathway was takeover by misaligned AI, though some emphasized structural threats such as instability, extreme inequality, and institutional collapse. Mitigation efforts focused on technical directions like mechanistic interpretability, black-box evaluations, and governance reform. --- **Note** Since this is a qualitative interview study rather than a single research result, I retained the following handling: - **Subject confirmation**: The organizing body FAR.AI (with Adam Gleave as its CEO) was clearly identified from the main text, along with the affiliations of several named expert interviewees (Anthropic, OpenAI, UK AISI, Redwood Research, Epoch AI, etc.).