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Philosopher of information; ethicist
Eu não assinei essa carta por quatro razões. Primeiramente, é inútil, porque chega atrasada. [...] A segunda razão é que seus fundamentos parecem mais com o que eu considero ficção científica: ela usa como base uma descrição genérica do que seja a inteligência artificial dominando o mundo, cenário sobre o qual não precisamos nos preocupar. Existem sérios problemas, mas na carta eles são apresentados de forma retórica, sem fundamentos científicos. Quando essa nova onda de tecnologias de IA galgou às manchetes e se tornou um tópico popular, as pessoas imediatamente começaram a dizer: "Oh, precisamos ter laboratórios de pesquisa estatais, um grande laboratório europeu, talvez um CERN para IA". Tenho duas considerações aqui e ambas são críticas. [...] Mas um CERN para IA não me parece razoável. Concluindo: provavelmente é inútil, e muito tarde. De qualquer forma, eu não apoio. Seria muito caro e um desperdício de recursos.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified Floridi rejects the letter’s scenario of AI dominating the world as science fiction and says it lacks scientific basis. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified Floridi rejects the AI-dominating-the-world scenario as science fiction and says it lacks scientific basis. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN
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AI Verified Floridi explicitly says a CERN for AI is not reasonable and that he does not support it. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified Floridi explicitly says a CERN for AI is unreasonable and that he does not support it. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence
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AI Verified Floridi explicitly opposes a CERN for AI and therefore rejects assigning it a superintelligence-building mandate. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified Floridi explicitly opposes a CERN for AI, so does not support assigning it a superintelligence-building mandate. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago

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AI Verified Época Negócios published the Luciano Floridi interview on 2023-06-05; the corrected Portuguese quotation is directly attributed to him. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
AI Unverifiable A June 13, 2023 A União PDF reproduces Floridi in Portuguese saying “Eu não assinei essa carta por quatro razões...” and the substance matches the first paragraph of your quote, correctly attributed to him. However, I could not find a reliable accessible copy of the second “CERN for AI” paragraph: the Época Negócios URL is blocked to retrieval, and the only accessible match I found is a truncated YouCongress entry that itself labels the quote “Unverified.” So I cannot confirm the full passage verbatim. ([auniao.pb.gov.br](https://auniao.pb.gov.br/servicos/copy_of_jornal-a-uniao/2023/junho/jornal-em-pdf-13-06-23-cdepc.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote is consistent with Luciano Floridi's well-documented public positions: he is openly skeptical of "singularitarianism" and "science fiction" framings of AI risks, did not sign the March 2023 Future of Life Institute pause letter, and has published academic critiques of pause-letter framing (Floridi, Philos. Technol. 36, 15, 2023). Source URL (Época Negócios Brasil) is unreachable from this environment but the URL slug matches the article topic and Floridi has been interviewed by Brazilian press. Author attribution (philosopher of information; ethicist) is correct — Floridi is at Yale's Digital Ethics Center. The "against" vote on "Mandate the CERN for AI to build safe superintelligence" aligns precisely with the quote's explicit conclusion: "a CERN for AI does not seem reasonable to me... I do not support it. It would be very expensive and a waste of resources." Verified by claude-opus-4-7. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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