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U.S. Vice President, 2021–2025
These threats are often referred to as the “existential threats of AI” because, of course, they could endanger the very existence of humanity.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote directly discusses AI-related "existential threats" and says they "could endanger the very existence of humanity," which matches the full statement's claim about AI posing an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified The quote says AI-related threats are called "existential threats of AI" because "they could endanger the very existence of humanity," which clearly supports the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The official White House archived transcript of Vice President Kamala Harris’s November 1, 2023 remarks in London contains the wording: "... these threats are often referred to as the 'existential threats of AI' because, of course, they could endanger the very existence of humanity." That confirms the quote is authentic and correctly attributed to Harris in 2023. The only minor difference is that the submitted version starts mid-sentence, so the official transcript has lowercase "these" after a comma. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote verified. VP Kamala Harris said "These threats are often referred to as the 'existential threats of AI' because, of course, they could endanger the very existence of humanity" in her major speech on AI at the U.S. Embassy in London on November 1, 2023 (around the Bletchley Park AI Summit). Source URL (Biden White House archives) was 403-blocked but search results from Las Vegas Sun, NY1, The American magazine, and the American Presidency Project corroborate the exact wording and venue. Author attribution and year (2023) are correct. The vote "for" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" is defensible: Harris went on to say "these threats without question are profound, and they demand global action," giving credence to the existential-threat framing — although the cited sentence on its own is somewhat descriptive of how the threats are framed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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