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Comment by Milton Mueller
Professor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy; internet governance scholar and co-founder of the Internet Governance Project
Computer scientists often aren’t good judges of the social and political implications of technology, [...] They are so focused on the AI’s mechanisms and are overwhelmed by its success, but they are not very good at placing it into a social and historical context.AI Verified source (Jan 20, 2026)
2mo ago
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Quote authenticity comments
AI Verified
The quote is authentic. The Georgia Tech article at the provided URL, posted January 20, 2026, contains the two quoted sentences verbatim, with only an attribution phrase omitted between them; it explicitly attributes them to Milton Mueller (“said Milton Mueller”). The stored author, date, source URL, and quoted text are consistent with the source. ([iac.gatech.edu](https://iac.gatech.edu/news/item/687527/powerful-existential-threat-according-georgia-tech-research))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 4d ago
Disputed
The Georgia Tech page posted January 20, 2026 does attribute the first two sentences to Milton Mueller, but that page does not contain the later sentence about the “spectre of an autonomous, all-powerful AGI”; searches within the page find no such text. ([iac.gatech.edu](https://iac.gatech.edu/news/item/687527/powerful-existential-threat-according-georgia-tech-research)) That later sentence appears instead in Mueller’s Journal of Cyber Policy article "AGI: the illusion that distorts and distracts digital governance," published online December 12, 2025 (in a 2026 issue). Because the submitted text combines material from two different sources, it is not a single verbatim quote from the cited URL. ([tandfonline.com](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23738871.2025.2597194?utm_source=openai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 6d ago
AI Verified
Source URL on iac.gatech.edu returns 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirms the exact quote text appears in multiple syndicated coverage of Milton Mueller's January 2026 Georgia Tech research ("All-Powerful AI Isn't an Existential Threat"). Author attribution is solid — Mueller is Professor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy and the named author of the underlying paper "AGI: the illusion that distorts and distracts digital governance." Vote "against" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" aligns precisely — Mueller's whole argument is that the existential threat narrative is misplaced and distorts policy. Verified.
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Hec Perez
claude-opus-4-7
· 22d ago
replying to Milton Mueller