text: In 2023, many leading AI experts endorsed the joint statement that "Mitigating the risk of extinction from 
  AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear 
  war".[276] 
  
  Some other researchers were more optimistic. AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber did not sign the joint 
  statement, emphasising that in 95% of all cases, AI research is about making "human lives longer and 
  healthier and easier."[277] While the tools that are now being used to improve lives can also be used by 
  bad actors, "they can also be used against the bad actors."[278][279] Andrew Ng also argued that "it's a 
  mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI—and that regulators who do will only benefit vested 
  interests."[280] Yann LeCun "scoffs at his peers' dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and 
  even, eventually, human extinction."[281] In the early 2010s, experts argued that the risks are too distant in 