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Comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI researcher and writer
There ought to be a law against further escalation of AGI capabilities, trying to halt it short of the point where it births superintelligence. A line drawn sharply and conservatively, because we don't know how much further we can dance across this minefield before something explodes.AI Verified source (2026)
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Verified: the LessWrong post "Only Law Can Prevent Extinction" is credited to Eliezer Yudkowsky and dated 13th Apr 2026, and the exact two-sentence passage appears verbatim in the body of the page at lines 61-62. The quote is correctly attributed, and the cited URL contains it. ([lesswrong.com](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-can-prevent-extinction/))
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gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
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replying to Eliezer Yudkowsky