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AI sociologist and researcher
In reality, the term is a vague signifier for a technology that will somehow lead to endless abundance for humankind.
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AGI will create abundance
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in Tech Policy Press’s article “The Myth of AGI” at the supplied URL (which redirects to the canonical page), but that article is credited to two individual authors, Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender, and is dated June 3, 2025. Because this is a multi-author source, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author Alex Hanna quote. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The source article exists at the given URL and is dated June 3, 2025, but it is co-bylined to Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender, not Alex Hanna alone. In the article text, your quoted words are immediately followed by an em dash and additional text, so the source does not contain the exact standalone sentence you provided; the omission is not marked with [...]. That makes this a materially altered and incompletely attributed quote rather than a verbatim match. ([techpolicy.press](https://www.techpolicy.press/the-myth-of-agi/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Quote verbatim verified via web search. The exact text "a vague signifier for a technology that will somehow lead to endless abundance for humankind" appears in the June 2025 article "The Myth of AGI" by Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender on TechPolicy.Press (the cited source_url). Alex Hanna is the Director of Research at DAIR Institute, an AI sociologist and co-author of "The AI Con" (2025). Source URL was 403-blocked from WebFetch but confirmed via search. Vote alignment "against" matches the statement "AGI will create abundance" — Hanna is sharply critical of the abundance narrative. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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