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Coinbase cofounder and CEO
AI doomers say if we build AI we might die. But they have it backwards. [...] AI is helping us solve these. Slowing progress doesn’t keep us safer, it guarantees more preventable deaths.
AI Verified (Sep 23, 2026)
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Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, in an X post reported by Snigdha Gairola, “Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Pushes Back on AI ‘Doomers’: ‘Slowing Progress Doesn’t Keep Us Safer’,” Benzinga, September 23, 2026. The article quotes Armstrong: “AI doomers say if we build AI we might die. But they have it backwards.” It also quotes: “AI is helping us solve these. Slowing progress doesn’t keep us safer, it guarantees more preventable deaths.”
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified Armstrong directly rejects the claim that building AI could cause “we” to die, calling it backwards, and says AI improves safety by preventing deaths. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 35min ago
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AI Verified Armstrong says the claim that building AI could make humanity die is backwards, so the recorded “against” answer is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 34min ago

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AI Verified Benzinga’s September 23, 2026 report quotes Armstrong verbatim: “AI doomers say if we build AI we might die. But they have it backwards” and “Slowing progress doesn’t keep us safer, it guarantees more preventable deaths.” · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 36min ago
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