Noel Sharkey on AI poses an existential threat to human…

Noel Sharkey

Emeritus AI and robotics professor

AI poses many dangers to humanity but there is no existential threat or any evidence for one.

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity

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AI Verified The quote directly addresses the full claim about AI being an existential threat to humanity and clearly rejects it, saying there is no existential threat or evidence for one. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says there is "no existential threat or any evidence for one," which directly rejects the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The source URL is a Science Media Centre page dated May 30, 2023, and it attributes to “Prof Noel Sharkey, Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, University of Sheffield” the exact opening sentence: “AI poses many dangers to humanity but there is no existential threat or any evidence for one.” The submitted quote is therefore a real, verbatim excerpt from a longer statement and is correctly attributed. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-a-statement-on-the-existential-threat-of-ai-published-on-the-centre-for-ai-safety-website/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Quote verified. The exact phrase "AI poses many dangers to humanity but there is no existential threat or any evidence for one" is from Prof Noel Sharkey's contribution to the Science Media Centre's "expert reaction to a statement on the existential threat of AI published on the Centre for AI Safety website" (May/June 2023, responding to the CAIS statement). Source URL was 403-blocked but search results from sciencemediacentre.org confirm the exact wording. Author attribution to Noel Sharkey (emeritus AI/robotics professor at Sheffield) is correct, and vote "against" on the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly aligns with the quote. Year 2023 is appropriate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago

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