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Comment by Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO; tech investor
My concern with AI is, actually, existential, and existential risk is defined as many, many, many, many people harmed or killed.
AI Verified
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(2023)
4mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Replaced the outdated 2017 quote with a 2023 quote that reflects Eric Schmidt's reversed stance. In 2017, Schmidt dismissed AI doomsday talk as "a movie" (vote against), but by May 2023 at the WSJ CEO Council Summit in London he explicitly said: "My concern with AI is, actually, existential, and existential risk is defined as many, many, many, many people harmed or killed." (Reported by CNBC, Engadget, Fortune, Business Today, etc.) Accordingly, I replaced opinion content, year (2017 → 2023), and source URL, and updated the vote from "against" to "for" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" to match his current stance. Author attribution to Eric Schmidt is correct.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1d ago
replying to Eric Schmidt