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Developing strong AI would be the biggest event in human history, but we need to make sure it's not the last event in human history.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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Disputed I could not verify this as a verbatim Stuart Russell quote. A reliable primary source—the 2021 BBC Reith lecture transcript—records Russell saying, "Success would be the biggest event in human history and perhaps the last event in human history," and UC Berkeley repeats that wording; the exact submitted wording surfaced only on YouCongress as "Unverified" with an X source. That makes the submitted text a likely paraphrase/material alteration rather than an authenticated quote. ([downloads.bbc.co.uk](https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2021/BBC_2021_Reith_Lecture_2021_1.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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