  Orientation of parsec-scale accretion disks in AGN is likely to be nearly
random for different black hole feeding episodes. Since AGN accretion disks are
unstable to self-gravity on parsec scales, star formation in these disks will
create young stellar disks, similar to those recently discovered in our
Galactic Center. The disks blend into the quasi-spherical star cluster
enveloping the AGN on time scales much longer than a likely AGN lifetime.
Therefore, the gravitational potential within the radius of the black hole
influence is at best axi-symmetric rather than spherically symmetric. Here we
show that as a result, a newly formed accretion disk will be warped. For the
simplest case of a potential resulting from a thin stellar ring, we calculate
the disk precession rates, and the time dependent shape. We find that, for a
realistic parameter range, the disk becomes strongly warped in few hundred
orbital times. We suggest that this, and possibly other mechanisms of accretion
disk warping, have a direct relevance to the problem of AGN obscuration, masing
warped accretion disks, narrow Fe K-alpha lines, etc.
