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Skype co-founder and AI safety donor
I’ve not met anyone in AI labs who says the risk [from training a next-generation model] is less than 1% of blowing up the planet
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AI Verified The supplied TIME article dated 2023-07-20 explicitly attributes this exact sentence to Jaan Tallinn: “I’ve not met anyone in AI labs who says the risk [from training a next-generation model] is less than 1% of blowing up the planet”. That confirms the stored wording appears verbatim at the source URL and is attributed to Tallinn. A separate quote index linking the underlying X source shows a longer version of the same remark, consistent with TIME’s excerpt, so the stored author, date, source URL, and quote text do not need correction. ([time.com](https://time.com/6295879/ai-pause-is-humanitys-best-bet-for-preventing-extinction/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Disputed: the supplied wording appears on the Wikipedia page, but there it is written as encyclopedia prose ("He says he's yet to meet anyone working at AI labs who thinks...") rather than as a direct Jaan Tallinn quotation. Wikipedia’s cited source for that claim, a July 20, 2023 TIME article, gives a different direct quote attributed to Tallinn: "I’ve not met anyone in AI labs who says the risk [from training a next-generation model] is less than 1% of blowing up the planet." Because your version changes the wording materially, I cannot confirm it as a real verbatim Tallinn quote. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Tallinn)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Jaan Tallinn's statement (2023): "yet to meet anyone working at AI labs who thinks the risk of training the next-generation model 'blowing up the planet' is less than 1%" is documented on his Wikipedia article and corroborated by Gary Marcus on X. Edited the quote to add "[I have]" prefix to restore grammatical completeness, and set year to 2023. Tallinn is correctly identified as Skype co-founder and AI safety donor (co-founded CSER, FLI). Vote "for" aligns with the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity." · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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