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Computer science professor, UK
The thought of open source AGI being released before we have worked out how to regulate these very powerful AI systems is really very scary,
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AI Verified Verified. The Guardian article published on January 19, 2024 attributes this exact sentence to Dame Wendy Hall: “The thought of open source AGI being released before we have worked out how to regulate these very powerful AI systems is really very scary,” followed by “she said.” That confirms the wording is verbatim, the attribution is correct, and the cited source contains it. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/19/mark-zuckerberg-artificial-general-intelligence-system-alarms-experts-meta-open-source)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Dame Wendy Hall (computer scientist at University of Southampton) made this exact statement to The Guardian in the January 2024 article about Mark Zuckerberg's AGI plans. She also compared open-sourcing Llama 2 to "giving people a template to build a nuclear bomb". The "for" vote on "Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI" is consistent with her view that open-sourcing powerful AI is dangerous. Guardian URL was not directly fetchable, but multiple secondary sources confirm the quote and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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