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Comment by Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Chief Scientist
There have been concerns [...] that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen.AI Verified source (2015)
5mo ago
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AI Verified
Contemporaneous 2015 coverage in IT Pro and The Week attributes this statement to Eric Horvitz and gives the fuller wording as “There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen,” so your version is a faithful omission with `[...]` standing for “about the long-term prospect.” A later KPMG PDF reproduces the same text and cites the BBC article URL as its source. ([itpro.com](https://www.itpro.com/security/23943/microsoft-research-chief-hits-back-at-ai-doom-gloom?utm_source=openai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
AI Verified
Verified via web search. Eric Horvitz made this statement in a January 2015 BBC interview where he discussed AI risks. The quote ("There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences" / "I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen") is well-documented in multiple secondary sources citing the BBC article. The vote 'against' the statement 'AI poses an existential threat to humanity' aligns correctly with Horvitz's expressed skepticism. BBC URL itself was unfetchable by AI, but quote attribution is confirmed by Gartner blog, Al Arabiya, Irish Times, and CACM coverage.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Eric Horvitz