"The recent explosion of progress in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has brought great opportunities, but it is also creating entirely new categories of weapons of mass destruction-like (WMD-like) and WMD-enabling catastrophic risks. By catastrophic risks, we mean risks of catastrophic events up to and including events that would lead to human extinction."

"An Action Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI", Gladstone Research, Commissioned by the US State Department, February 26, 2024. Page 1. Underline added. Report is here.