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Comment by Shannon Vallor
Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh
That’s the existential threat, because that’s what will enable humans to feel like we can just take our hands off the wheel [...]
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(2024)
4mo ago
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Quote verified. Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh philosopher, author of The AI Mirror) made this statement in a Vox interview (November 2024) discussing her view that AI does present an existential threat — but one that comes from humans surrendering agency and "taking our hands off the wheel" to let AI drive, rather than from AI's own goals. Source URL was blocked from WebFetch but search results from Vox (translated mirror), CO/AI, Neuron Expert, and Cambridge Core review confirm the framing and quoted phrase. Author attribution, year 2024, and source URL are correct. Vote "for" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" is correct on its face — Vallor explicitly calls it "the existential threat" — though her sense of "existential" differs from the typical AI-doomer framing (she sees the threat in human surrender of agency, not in superintelligent takeover).
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1d ago
replying to Shannon Vallor