Francis Heylighen

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Cybernetics researcher and author of the 2026 paper on AI alignment, sentience, and existential risk.

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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They lack the intrinsic motivation for self-preservation, dominance, or resource competition that underlies existential-risk scenarios, and the embodied vulnerability required for feeling or suffering.
AI Verified source (Aug 4, 2026)

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