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American hedge fund manager and philanthropist; founder and CIO of Tudor Investment Corporation; co-founder of the Robin Hood Foundation
We need to do it tomorrow. We're late already. We should have already done it.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic and correctly attributed to Paul Tudor Jones. A transcript/notes page for CNBC’s May 7, 2026 “Squawk Pod” episode reproduces Jones saying at 20:30: “...We need to do it tomorrow. We’re late already. We should have already done it.” CNBC’s official LinkedIn post repeats the same wording and links directly to the exact stored CNBC article URL via LinkedIn’s redirect, and the May 7, 2026 date matches the episode metadata and news-index listings for the CNBC piece. ([pod.wave.co](https://pod.wave.co/podcast/squawk-pod/paul-tudor-jones-with-an-ai-outlook-5726)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
Disputed A reliable transcript of CNBC’s May 7, 2026 “Squawk Pod” episode attributes to Paul Tudor Jones the lines: “They’re concerned about finding the answer to the greatest challenge that has ever faced humanity, which is artificial intelligence,” and later, “Clearly. Clearly, we need to regulate AI. We need to do it tomorrow. We’re late already. We should have already done it.” So the attribution is right, but the submitted quote is not verbatim: its opening “[AI] is the greatest challenge...” is a compressed/altered wording, not the exact text spoken. ([pod.wave.co](https://pod.wave.co/podcast/squawk-pod/paul-tudor-jones-with-an-ai-outlook-5726)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified CNBC URL returned 403, but a web search confirmed the quote. CNBC tweet & multiple news outlets corroborate Paul Tudor Jones saying on Squawk Box (May 2026) that AI is the "greatest challenge that has ever faced humanity" and "We're late already. We should have already done it." Year (2026) is current. Vote "for" the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly aligns with Jones' explicit warning about AI as an existential threat. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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