Existential risk from artificial intelligence

Existential risk from artificial general intelligence - hypothesis that artificial general intelligence could result in human extinction. Article “Existential risk from artificial intelligence” in English Wikipedia has 82.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 250 references and 29 sections.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Existential risk from artificial intelligence” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (7510^th place) and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Existential risk from artificial intelligence”, its content was written by 259 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 407 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 592 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1602 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1957 in February 2016
• Global: #7049 in May 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26488 in May 2023
• Global: #43778 in May 2023

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	French (fr) Risque existentiel posé par l'intelligence artificielle		83.1045
2	German (de) Existenzielles Risiko durch künstliche Intelligenz		82.8571
3	English (en) Existential risk from artificial intelligence		82.0653
4	Arabic (ar) الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي		81.4702
5	Portuguese (pt) Risco existencial da inteligência artificial geral		80.9819
6	Spanish (es) Riesgo existencial de la inteligencia artificial		78.3737
7	Hebrew (he) סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית		68.3679
8	Romanian (ro) Risc existențial cauzat de inteligența artificială puternică		61.7118
9	Japanese (ja) 汎用人工知能による人類滅亡のリスク		40.7007
10	Catalan (ca) Risc existencial de la intel·ligència artificial		40.2274

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Existential risk from artificial intelligence" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Existential risk from artificial intelligence		1 383 486
2	French (fr) Risque existentiel posé par l'intelligence artificielle		48 994
3	Arabic (ar) الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي		44 985
4	Japanese (ja) 汎用人工知能による人類滅亡のリスク		31 475
5	Spanish (es) Riesgo existencial de la inteligencia artificial		18 990
6	German (de) Existenzielles Risiko durch künstliche Intelligenz		18 631
7	Czech (cs) Existenční rizika vývoje umělé inteligence		12 541
8	Hebrew (he) סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית		7 829
9	Romanian (ro) Risc existențial cauzat de inteligența artificială puternică		5 878
10	Persian (fa) خطر وجودی ناشی از هوش جامع مصنوعی		5 829

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Existential risk from artificial intelligence" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Existential risk from artificial intelligence		23 508
2	German (de) Existenzielles Risiko durch künstliche Intelligenz		2 062
3	Arabic (ar) الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي		1 488
4	French (fr) Risque existentiel posé par l'intelligence artificielle		1 428
5	Japanese (ja) 汎用人工知能による人類滅亡のリスク		1 104
6	Spanish (es) Riesgo existencial de la inteligencia artificial		1 044
7	Portuguese (pt) Risco existencial da inteligência artificial geral		784
8	Hebrew (he) סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית		319
9	Chinese (zh) 通用人工智能的生存风险		173
10	Czech (cs) Existenční rizika vývoje umělé inteligence		170

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Existential risk from artificial intelligence" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Existential risk from artificial intelligence		259
2	French (fr) Risque existentiel posé par l'intelligence artificielle		27
3	German (de) Existenzielles Risiko durch künstliche Intelligenz		19
4	Czech (cs) Existenční rizika vývoje umělé inteligence		18
5	Spanish (es) Riesgo existencial de la inteligencia artificial		14
6	Arabic (ar) الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي		12
7	Japanese (ja) 汎用人工知能による人類滅亡のリスク		12
8	Hebrew (he) סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית		11
9	Persian (fa) خطر وجودی ناشی از هوش جامع مصنوعی		7
10	Chinese (zh) 通用人工智能的生存风险		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Existential risk from artificial intelligence" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Existential risk from artificial intelligence		11
2	Hebrew (he) סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית		3
3	Dutch (nl) Existentieel risico door kunstmatige intelligentie		2
4	Catalan (ca) Risc existencial de la intel·ligència artificial		1
5	German (de) Existenzielles Risiko durch künstliche Intelligenz		1
6	Arabic (ar) الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Süni intellektin ekzistensial riski		0
8	Czech (cs) Existenční rizika vývoje umělé inteligence		0
9	Spanish (es) Riesgo existencial de la inteligencia artificial		0
10	Persian (fa) خطر وجودی ناشی از هوش جامع مصنوعی		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Existential risk from artificial intelligence" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Existential risk from artificial intelligence		592
2	Arabic (ar) الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي		173
3	French (fr) Risque existentiel posé par l'intelligence artificielle		150
4	Chinese (zh) 通用人工智能的生存风险		131
5	Hebrew (he) סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית		101
6	Serbian (sr) Egzistencijalni rizik od opšte veštačke inteligencije		79
7	Korean (ko) 인공 일반 지능의 실존적 위험		76
8	Turkish (tr) Yapay genel zekâdan kaynaklanan varoluşsal risk		58
9	Romanian (ro) Risc existențial cauzat de inteligența artificială puternică		56
10	Japanese (ja) 汎用人工知能による人類滅亡のリスク		51

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الخطر الوجودي من الذكاء الاصطناعي
az	Azerbaijani Süni intellektin ekzistensial riski
ca	Catalan Risc existencial de la intel·ligència artificial
cs	Czech Existenční rizika vývoje umělé inteligence
de	German Existenzielles Risiko durch künstliche Intelligenz
en	English Existential risk from artificial intelligence
es	Spanish Riesgo existencial de la inteligencia artificial
fa	Persian خطر وجودی ناشی از هوش جامع مصنوعی
fr	French Risque existentiel posé par l'intelligence artificielle
he	Hebrew סכנה קיומית מבינה מלאכותית כללית
id	Indonesian Krisis eksistensial dari kecerdasan buatan
ja	Japanese 汎用人工知能による人類滅亡のリスク
ko	Korean 인공 일반 지능의 실존적 위험
nl	Dutch Existentieel risico door kunstmatige intelligentie
pt	Portuguese Risco existencial da inteligência artificial geral
ro	Romanian Risc existențial cauzat de inteligența artificială puternică
sr	Serbian Egzistencijalni rizik od opšte veštačke inteligencije
tr	Turkish Yapay genel zekâdan kaynaklanan varoluşsal risk
zh	Chinese 通用人工智能的生存风险

Best Rank

English: #26488 05.2023

Global: #43778 05.2023

Best Rank

English: #1957 02.2016

Global: #7049 05.2023

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