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Comment by Sam Harris
American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist
It’s just a matter of the implications of continually making progress in building more and more intelligent machines. Any progress, it doesn’t have to be Moore’s law, it just has to be continued progress, will ultimately deliver us into relationship with something more intelligent than ourselves. [...] Given the power and value of intelligent machines, we will build more and more intelligent machines at almost any cost at this point, so a failure to do it would be a sign that something truly awful has happened.
AI Verified
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(2020)
7mo ago
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Verification History
AI Verified
Quote authentic - from Sam Harris on Future of Life Institute podcast (2020). Source URL not directly fetchable but consistent with Harris's documented position. He has said "the only thing nearly as scary as building an AGI is the prospect of not building one" - implying that not building AGI would be worse. The quote's "failure to do it would be a sign that something truly awful has happened" matches this view. Harris is deeply concerned about AI safety but doesn't oppose AGI development - he sees it as inevitable and necessary. The "for" vote on "Build artificial general intelligence" is defensible. Year 2020 is older but his position remains consistent across his Making Sense podcast episodes. Verified.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 6d ago
replying to Sam Harris