As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz. Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2023/05/ # AI in May 2023 4 events: 2 major. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026. Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source. - 2023-05-30: [Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-cais-statement-ai-risk/). Source: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk - 2023-05-30: [NVIDIA becomes the first chipmaker worth $1 trillion](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion/). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-becomes-first-public-company-worth-5-trillion/ - 2023-05-25: [AI finds abaucin, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic against the superbug Acinetobacter baumannii](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-25-abaucin-ai-antibiotic/). Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01349-8 - 2023-05-01: [Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so he can speak freely about AI risks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-01-hinton-leaves-google/). Source: https://x.com/geoffreyhinton/status/1653687894534504451 Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2023/03/ Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2023/06/