Comment by Max Tegmark

All AI systems should be under meaningful human control. This is especially true for those that could be used in the taking of human lives. Moreover, current AI systems are inherently unpredictable and fundamentally brittle, unsuited for very high stakes applications. Even if they could be made effective, fully autonomous weapons would pose a threat not just to human dignity and liberty but to American national security: they could inadvertently fuel escalation, and would easily proliferate, putting cheap, accessible, weapons of assassination and mass destruction in the hands of non-state actors and adversaries. AI Unverifiable source (2026)