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AI ethics researcher; DAIR founder
Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.
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Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence
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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes the core action in the statement: it says attempting to build AGI is inherently unsafe and explicitly says not to try to build such godlike systems. That implies opposition to mandating any institution, including a CERN for AI, to build safe superintelligence. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes building AGI/superintelligence: it says "Trying to 'build' AGI is an inherently unsafe practice" and "Don't attempt to build a God." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Build artificial general intelligence
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AI Verified The quote directly addresses the full statement by explicitly discussing attempts to "build" AGI and clearly opposing doing so as unsafe. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes it: it says trying to "build AGI is an inherently unsafe practice" and "Don’t attempt to build a God." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Verified. An archived capture of the Financial Times article at the supplied URL, "We must slow down the race to God-like AI" (archived April 13, 2023), explicitly attributes the exact wording to Timnit Gebru: "In a recent talk, Gebru said: ‘Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.’" A mirrored PDF of the same FT page reproduces the same text. This is a secondary-source attribution in the FT article, but the quote itself is verbatim there and credited to Gebru. ([archive.fo](https://archive.fo/hkmaC)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Timnit Gebru (DAIR founder, AI ethics researcher) from a Financial Times article in 2023. WebFetch on ft.com source URL failed (Claude Code unable to fetch from www.ft.com). Web search confirms verbatim the quote: "Trying to 'build' AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don't attempt to build a God." The view is consistent with Gebru's well-documented position (cf. her TESCREAL paper, Stanford Daily talk "Utopia for Whom?", and her statements that "AGI is a fictional thing"). Vote "against" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Gebru's anti-AGI advocacy. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL inaccessibility. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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