{"claim_id": "ssrn-6288138-001", "claim": "Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk brings existential AI risk into mainstream legal scholarship. It classifies existential AI risks into human-directed risks, accident risks, and loss-of-control risks, argues that legal institutions should make these risks legible under uncertainty, critiques the AI arms-race metaphor, and proposes adaptive regulation that preserves policy optionality while responding to non-trivial catastrophic risk.", "paper_id": "ssrn-6288138", "paper_title": "Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk", "claim_type": "core_thesis", "evidence_quote": "Abstract: Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk brings existential AI risk into mainstream legal scholarship. It classifies existential AI risks into human-directed risks, accident risks, and loss-of-control risks, argues that legal institutions should make these risks legible under uncertainty, critiques the AI arms-race metaphor, and proposes adaptive regulation that preserves policy optionality while responding to non-trivial catastrophic risk.", "evidence_page": null, "evidence_span": "Abstract: Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk brings existential AI risk into mainstream legal scholarship. It classifies existential AI risks into human-directed risks, accident risks, and loss-of-control risks, argues that legal institutions should make these risks legible under uncertainty, critiques the AI arms-race metaphor, and proposes adaptive regulation that preserves policy optionality while responding to non-trivial catastrophic risk.", "source_text_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-6288138/fulltext_clean.txt", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-6288138/#claim-001", "citation": "Matthew J. Tokson & Yonathan A. Arbel, Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk, Connecticut Law Review (2026).", "topics": ["ai-regulation", "artificial-intelligence-and-law"], "secondary_topics": [], "human_reviewed": false, "confidence": "machine-linked", "limitations": "Machine-linked claim. Use the evidence quote and PDF before treating it as a quotation or as a complete statement of the paper's position."}