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Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
In many ways, I think it’s a threat to democracy. That’s not a threat to humanity.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote clearly rejects the statement: the author says AI may be "a threat to democracy" but explicitly adds, "That’s not a threat to humanity," which implies opposition to the claim that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The quote says AI is "a threat to democracy" and explicitly adds, "That’s not a threat to humanity," which clearly rejects the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago

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AI Verified At the supplied TechCrunch URL, in an interview article by Connie Loizos dated May 18, 2023, Gary Marcus is quoted saying: In many ways, I think it’s a threat to democracy. That’s not a threat to humanity. The quote appears verbatim on the page and is clearly Marcus’s answer, so the stored content, attribution, date, and source URL all match. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/psst-gary-marcus-is-happy-to-help-regulate-ai-on-behalf-of-the-u-s-government/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The source URL does contain the exact wording and attributes it to Gary Marcus: Business Standard/IANS says he said AI is a “threat to democracy, not to humanity.” But TechCrunch’s underlying interview quotes Marcus differently: “In many ways, I think it’s a threat to democracy. That’s not a threat to humanity.” That means the supplied quote is a condensed paraphrase, not a confirmed verbatim Gary Marcus quote. ([business-standard.com](https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/there-are-50-chance-that-ai-will-wipe-out-humanity-american-physicist-123060500919_1.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Gary Marcus's position that "current AI is a threat to democracy, but not a threat to humanity" is extensively documented from his May 2023 Senate testimony, AFP interviews, and France24 coverage. He explicitly said extinction risk is "overblown" and that he's not personally concerned about existential risk. Marcus is correctly identified as Professor of Psychology/Neural Science (NYU). Vote "against" aligns with the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" — Marcus argues AI is NOT a threat to humanity. Source URL (Business Standard article about Tegmark's 50% prediction) is blocked by WebFetch but likely includes Marcus's counter-position; the substance of the quote is well-documented across multiple 2023 sources. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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