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Anthony Aguirre

Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a choice masquerading as fate. By imposing some hard, global limits, we can keep AI's general capability to approximately human level while still reaping the benefits of computers' ability to process data in ways we cannot, and automate tasks none of us wants to do. [...] Humanity must choose to close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence. To keep the future human.

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Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence

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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes building AGI or superintelligence at all, calling for 'hard, global limits' and to 'close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence.' That general opposition implies opposition to mandating any institution, including a CERN for AI, to build 'safe superintelligence.' · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly rejects building AGI/superintelligence: "there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete" and "Humanity must choose to close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence," so it clearly opposes mandating anyone to build safe superintelligence. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Build artificial general intelligence

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AI Verified The quote directly addresses whether to build AGI, explicitly saying there is "no need to build" beyond human-competitive AI and urging humanity to "close the Gates to AGI." That is clearly about the full statement and expresses opposition to it. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes building AGI, saying "there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete" and that humanity must "close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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AI Verified ai_verified: The quote clearly supports hard global limits to prevent AGI/superintelligence development—"keep AI's general capability to approximately human level" and "close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence." Although it does not mention "until safety consensus is reached," it implies support for at least that much restriction, since the author appears to favor an even stronger ban. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote supports banning superintelligence development pending safety and public consensus; recorded answer 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

AI Verified The quote explicitly urges "hard, global limits" and says humanity must "close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence," which clearly supports banning superintelligence development, even more strongly than a temporary wait-for-consensus pause. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Verified. The official chapter page at the provided URL contains the passage verbatim, with the user’s [...] accurately omitting the intervening sentence about risks/benefits; the closing lines also appear exactly there. The essay is credited on the site to Anthony Aguirre, and the official PDF lists Anthony Aguirre as author and is dated March 5, 2025. ([keepthefuturehuman.ai](https://keepthefuturehuman.ai/essay/docs/chapter-10)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Anthony Aguirre from "Keep the Future Human: Why and How We Should Close the Gates to AGI and Superintelligence, and What We Should Build Instead" (March 5, 2025), Chapter 10. WebFetch on keepthefuturehuman.ai source URL and the arxiv preprint both returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms the essay exists with the exact thesis: "close the Gates to AGI and superintelligence" and "Keep the Future Human" by Anthony Aguirre, with passages matching the cited content about humanity choosing whether to build AGI vs. tool AI. Vote "against" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Aguirre's central thesis. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5mo ago

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

If humans want to stay in charge of their own civilization, it will take more than a unilateral temporary pause.

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

We are approaching a runaway to superintelligence that could threaten our shared human future. Both publicly and privately, AI companies are recognizing that a pause or slowdown in certain developmental pathways is crucial to protect lives and liveli...

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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment