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Comment by Joanna Bryson

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AI ethics researcher
But it's not an existential threat, [...] It's just a horrible, awful weapon.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Unverifiable The quote only says "it" is "not an existential threat" and "just a horrible, awful weapon"; without explicit mention of AI or humanity, it is not clear that it addresses the full statement about AI posing an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified Verified. The cited NDTV article (an Agence France-Presse syndicated piece dated June 27, 2023) contains the exact wording: “But it's not an existential threat,” Joanna Bryson “told AFP. ‘It's just a horrible, awful weapon.’” It also identifies her as “AI expert Joanna Bryson from the Hertie School in Berlin.” An AFP republication carries the same text, and Bryson’s own CV later notes that she told AFP AI abuse “wasn’t an existential threat” and was “a horrible, awful weapon,” which corroborates the attribution. ([ndtv.com](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/is-artificial-intelligence-an-existential-risk-to-humanity-4155993)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote verified. The exact phrases "But it's not an existential threat" and "It's just a horrible, awful weapon" come from Joanna Bryson (Hertie School in Berlin) speaking to AFP in June/July 2023 about AI risks. The AFP wire story ran in many outlets including NDTV, Breitbart, Inquirer, Jordan Times, and SpaceWar/SpaceDaily. The [...] elides Bryson's context that she could imagine someone using AI to spread a poison like anthrax more quickly, but that this is not existential. Source URL not directly fetchable but corroborated across multiple syndicated copies. Author attribution to Joanna Bryson (AI ethics researcher) is correct, vote "against" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly aligns. Year 2023 is appropriate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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