Comment by Duncan Cass-Beggs

Executive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); former OECD Senior Counsellor for Strategic Foresight
The whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait — let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working together internationally to define limits until we know it would be safe.
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AI Verified Verified via web search. Tribune India and ANI News URLs returned 403, but search results confirm the exact quote attributed to Duncan Cass-Beggs at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (February 16, 2026): "The whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait — let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely." Vote 'for' "Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached" directly matches the quote. Year 2026 confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 21d ago
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