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Comment by Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.AI Verified source (2014)
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The quote clearly supports the statement: saying full artificial intelligence could 'spell the end of the human race' implies AI can pose an existential threat to humanity.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
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AI Verified
The quote says full AI "could spell the end of the human race," which directly supports the idea that AI poses an existential threat to humanity.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
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Confirmed: the Guardian article dated December 2, 2014 contains the exact sentence you provided as part of a longer quotation and explicitly attributes it to Stephen Hawking, stating that Hawking told the BBC. So the quote is real, verbatim, correctly attributed, and present at the supplied source URL. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/02/stephen-hawking-intel-communication-system-astrophysicist-software-predictive-text-type))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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