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Comment by Michael Vassar

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If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, [...] the human species will be extinct in very short order.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies support: it says greater-than-human AGI, if developed without due caution, could cause human extinction, which is an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote says that if 'greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution,' 'the human species will be extinct in very short order,' which clearly describes an existential threat from AI. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Verified. Big Think’s source page for “Michael Vassar: Unchecked AI Will Bring On Human Extinction” includes the transcript line attributed to Michael Vassar: “If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order.” A Big Think article published February 24, 2015 repeats the same quotation, so the version with “[...]” is a faithful omission rather than a material alteration. ([bigthink.com](https://bigthink.com/videos/michael-vassar-ai-will-bring-on-human-exctinction)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote verified. The full quote, "If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order," is from Michael Vassar's Big Think video "Unchecked AI Will Bring On Human Extinction" (published Feb 24, 2015). The [...] in the YouCongress quote elides "it is all but certain that". Source URL was 403-blocked but search results from Big Think, Futurism, and Wikiquote corroborate the quote and attribution. Vote "for" on the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly aligns with the quote. Updated year from null to 2015. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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