Johnnie Moore on Pausing AI at human-genius level to sol…

Johnnie Moore

American evangelical leader and businessman, founder of The Kairos Company and chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

We should rapidly develop powerful AI tools that help cure diseases and solve practical problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that nobody knows how to control. Creating superintelligent machines is not only unacceptably dangerous and immoral, but also completely unnecessary.

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Johnnie Moore, quoted in Future of Life Institute, “Prominent Scientists, Faith Leaders, Policymakers and Artists Call for a Prohibition on Superintelligence,” March 27, 2026.

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

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AI Verified The quote supports requiring safety/control safeguards before pursuing superintelligence, making support for the safer pause-and-alignment approach substantially more likely. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The author advocates safety/control requirements before superintelligence; that supports the recorded “for” answer to the pause-and-alignment safety statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Future of Life Institute press release (27 Mar 2026), which reproduces this wording and attributes it to the author. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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