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Comment by Pia Lauritzen

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Danish philosopher and leadership adviser
It poses an existential threat because it offers answers faster than humans can ask the questions that help them contemplate their existence.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Unverifiable The quote supports that something "poses an existential threat," but it never explicitly says that the subject is AI; with only the pronoun "It," its connection to the full statement about AI threatening humanity is unclear. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified Verified: the Forbes result for the June 22, 2025 article “This Existential Threat Calls For Philosophers, Not AI Experts” at the cited Forbes URL shows the sentence verbatim and credits the article to Pia Lauritzen; a LinkedIn snippet also shows Lauritzen repeating the same passage and referring to it as the Forbes piece she wrote. ([forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/pialauritzen/2025/06/22/the-biggest-existential-threat-calls-for-philosophers-not-ai-experts/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Cannot verify the exact quote wording. Forbes.com blocks WebFetch ('Claude Code is unable to fetch from www.forbes.com'). Confirmed via independent sources that Pia Lauritzen is a Danish philosopher and tech inventor who writes a regular Forbes column on philosophical questions about AI, that the URL slug matches the topic, and that her LinkedIn/Substack discuss this article ('to know whether something is an existential' threat). Year 2025 and author attribution check out, and the 'for' vote on 'AI poses an existential threat to humanity' is consistent with the article title. But I cannot positively confirm the exact direct-quote text without access to the Forbes article. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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