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Comment by Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
With AI, [...] constitutes an existential threat to the survival of human civilisation.
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(2023)
4mo ago
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Web search confirms the exact phrase "constitutes an existential threat to the survival of human civilisation" is from Yuval Noah Harari's November 2023 Guardian interview. Full context: "what you're talking about is a very large number of dangerous scenarios, each of them having a relatively small probability that taken together … constitutes an existential threat to the survival of human civilisation." The "[...]" in the YouCongress quote omits the conditional framing about cumulative scenarios, but the substantive position — that AI constitutes an existential threat — is accurately represented. The "for" vote on the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" is correct. Could not access theguardian.com directly; year 2023 verified. Harari's more recent 2025-2026 statements focus on identity/immigration crises rather than directly on existential threat framing.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1d ago
replying to Yuval Noah Harari