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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.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote directly links AI to an "existential" concern and explains that risk in terms of massive human harm or death, which matches the claim that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote says the author's concern with AI is "existential" and describes that risk as "many, many, many, many people harmed or killed," which supports the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic and correctly attributed to Eric Schmidt. An accessible NDTV report reproduces the full sentence and says Schmidt said it at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in London on May 25, 2023, and a separate Yahoo Tech/Business Insider syndication matches the same wording. Your version adds commas after “is” and “existential,” but the words otherwise match. ([ndtv.com](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-says-ai-could-cause-people-to-be-harmed-or-killed-4064867)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Replaced the outdated 2017 quote with a 2023 quote that reflects Eric Schmidt's reversed stance.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. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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