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Many believe it’s impossible. Just like it’s impossible for chimpanzees to control us. So most likely if we build superintelligence, its the end of the era where humans are in charge of Earth.
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AI Unverifiable Secondary sources connected to the Jan. 22, 2026 Bloomberg Live video "Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and AI" attribute these lines to Max Tegmark, including "Many believe it's impossible... chimpanzees to control us" and "it's the end of the era where humans are in charge of Earth." ([medium.com](https://medium.com/%40ZombieCodeKill/harari-and-tegmark-on-humanity-and-ai-ee9306a71972)) However, I could not directly verify the exact passage in the YouTube source URL itself or in an official transcript, so this falls short of the standard for confirming a verbatim quote from the cited source. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 9d ago
Disputed The cited Futurist URL does not contain the submitted quote verbatim; it only paraphrases the point as the “control problem” being analogized to chimpanzees controlling humans. ([futurist.com](https://futurist.com/2026/01/24/yuval-noah-harari-and-max-tegmark-on-humanity-and-artificial-intelligence/)) I found a transcript-style secondary source that attributes a very similar passage to Tegmark, but it uses “So most likely...” rather than your bracketed “[If superintelligence is built without solving this,]” and therefore does not support the quote as verbatim as written; that source also contains the “end of the era where humans are in charge of Earth” wording. ([medium.com](https://medium.com/%40ZombieCodeKill/harari-and-tegmark-on-humanity-and-ai-ee9306a71972)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (futurist.com/2026/01/24/yuval-noah-harari-and-max-tegmark-on-humanity-and-artificial-intelligence/) returned 403 Forbidden. Web search confirms Tegmark made these statements at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos in an interview with Yuval Noah Harari for Bloomberg. He stated "Many believe it's impossible" to control superintelligence, comparing it to chimpanzees controlling humans, and warned about the end of human control. Vote "against" (AI alignment is solvable) is correct - Tegmark expresses deep skepticism about the possibility of controlling superintelligent AI. Year 2026 is correct. Source URL could not be directly fetched due to site blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (futurist.com) returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms Max Tegmark made this statement at Davos 2026 (World Economic Forum, Jan 19-23, 2026) during a discussion with Yuval Noah Harari. Multiple sources (medium.com, justdoers.com) corroborate the quote. Vote "against" is correct: Tegmark compares the control problem to chimpanzees controlling humans, implying alignment may be impossible. Year 2026 confirmed. Author attribution confirmed. Could not directly verify source URL content. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
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