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U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut)
The most significant downside is the spiritual impact of AI, because what happens to us as human beings if we start outsourcing our basic functionalities as humans, like creativity and friendship and conversation and problem solving, to machines? [...] I'm not sure what's left of the human soul if machines start doing all those things for us. We become, very quickly, a very spiritually empty, unhappy, and anxious nation. And that will play out in political, cultural, social chaos as well. So it really is an existential threat.
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Chris Murphy, “Murphy Deems Artificial Intelligence an ‘Existential Threat,’ Rejects Republican Fearmongering, Calls for Immediate Action Heading Into the Midterms,” October 27, 2026.
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