Comment by David Krueger

Cambridge faculty - AI alignment, DL, and existential safety. Formerly Mila, FHI, DeepMind, ElementAI, AISI.
AI might literally lead to human extinction, in the same way that humans have caused many other species to go extinct.
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AI Verified The quote directly addresses the full claim: it says AI could "literally lead to human extinction," which matches the idea that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified The quote says AI "might literally lead to human extinction," which directly supports the idea that it poses an existential threat. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The source URL is a Substack post titled "Stop AI" with the byline "David Krueger" and date "Apr 19, 2026." In paragraph 29, it contains the quoted sentence verbatim: "AI might literally lead to human extinction, in the same way that humans have caused many other species to go extinct." That confirms the text is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed to David Krueger. ([therealartificialintelligence.substack.com](https://therealartificialintelligence.substack.com/p/stop-ai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI Verified Source URL returned 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirms the quote appears in David Krueger's Substack post "Stop AI" on therealartificialintelligence.substack.com (April 2026). Krueger is Assistant Professor at Cambridge focused on existential safety from AI. The vote 'for' the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly matches the quote's explicit claim that AI might literally lead to human extinction. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago
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AI alignment is solvable
None of these approaches that you'll often hear mentioned—interpretability, testing or alignment—is technically adequate. We don't know how to build superintelligent AI safely. The plan is basically to roll the dice.
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