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AI Risk Awareness on Reddit. All about how upcoming autonomous AGI systems could go wrong. If you are a true techno-optimist at heart, use AI all the time and love how much power it gives you, you understand how this is not like the other technologies and how ridiculous it is to think of it as a "tool" long-term.

64k subscribers1,391 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)737 authors / mosince 2025

r/AIDangers has 64k members (+208% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,391 posts a month from 737 people. Top topics: AI Dangers & Ethics, AI Job Displacement & Future and AI Apocalypse.

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Size and growth

How r/AIDangers has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+208%in 12 months · +35% in 3 months · +9.1% in 1 month
Oct 202662k
Growing62k subscribers
Live · through Oct 2026
r/AIDangers

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+404%vs Sep 2025 · +73% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.4k
BusierPeaked at 1.4k in Sep 2026
Sep 2026: incl. ~1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/AIDangers

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. AI Dangers & Ethics6.4%
  2. AI Job Displacement & Future1.8%
  3. AI Apocalypse1.5%
  4. AGI Discussions1.4%
  5. Future of AI1.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Futurism
  3. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  4. Fortune
  5. WIRED

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research