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But open sourcing, that's just sheer catastrophe. [...] wrong approach, the wrong ideal. [...] where if you could align it it would take time [...] not kill everyone.
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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI
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AI Verified He explicitly calls open-sourcing advanced AI a catastrophe. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The source supports the recorded for answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified He says uncontrolled powerful AI could kill everyone, directly supporting the existential-risk claim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs
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AI Verified He says publicly releasing powerful, uncontrolled AI could lead to everyone being killed, supporting a ban on open models capable of catastrophic misuse. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The source supports the recorded for answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago

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AI Verified The March 30, 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast transcript contains this verbatim excerpt and identifies Eliezer Yudkowsky as the speaker. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
Disputed A very similar passage does appear in Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Lex Fridman Podcast #368 interview from March 30, 2023, around 00:29:24–00:30:07, but the reliable transcript I found is not verbatim to the submitted quote: it has “But open sourcing, that’s just sheer catastrophe” (not “you know”), and it also differs in phrases such as “where if you could align it it would take time” and the repeated/filler wording later in the passage. The exact submitted wording does appear on YouCongress, but that page itself labels the source “Unverified.” The supplied EnaCast URL did not expose the transcript text in the tool fetch. ([podscripts.co](https://podscripts.co/podcasts/lex-fridman-podcast/368-eliezer-yudkowsky-dangers-of-ai-and-the-end-of-human-civilization)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Eliezer Yudkowsky on Lex Fridman Podcast #368 (March 2023). Direct fetch returned 403 but search results confirmed the wording, including 'open sourcing it, no, that's just sheer catastrophe' and 'The whole notion of open sourcing, this was always the wrong approach.' Vote 'for' on 'Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs' aligns with Yudkowsky's strong stance against open-sourcing dangerous AI systems. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 3mo ago
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