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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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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Unverifiable The quote mentions an 'existential threat to the survival of human civilisation,' but the key subject is omitted in the ellipsis, so it is unclear whether the speaker means AI itself or a narrower AI-related issue. That makes it impossible to verify the complete statement exactly. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The Guardian article at the supplied URL, published on November 9, 2023, attributes the statement to Yuval Noah Harari (“Harari told the Guardian”) and prints the full sentence beginning “With AI, what you’re talking about ...” and ending “constitutes an existential threat to the survival of human civilisation.” The submitted version is a faithful ellipsis of that verbatim quote. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/09/yuval-noah-harari-artificial-intelligence-ai-cause-financial-crisis)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified 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. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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