The AI is a real problem for the future of humanity

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  Ben Bernanke

  Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair

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  A sober but highly readable book on the very real risks of AI. Unverified source (2025)

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  Toby Ord

  Oxford philosopher; The Precipice author

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  One technology that may pose the greatest threat this century is artificial intelligence (AI) – [...] Unverified source (2021)

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  Vitalik Buterin

  Ethereum cofounder; technologist

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  But a superintelligent AI, if it decides to turn against us, may well leave no survivors, and end humanity for good. Unverified source (2023)

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  Jeremie Harris

  CEO of Gladstone AI

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  Yeah, well, I think it’s clear that we’ve taken some significant steps toward human-level AI, particularly in the last three years. I think that’s so much the case that, as we’ve just seen, many of the world’s top AI researchers — including two of th... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Martin Rees

  Astronomer Royal and cosmologist

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  But my theme is that in this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains, may change human being... more Unverified source (2007)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  Yeah. Look, we have tried to be very clear about the magnitude of the risks here. I think jobs and employment and what we're all gonna do with our time really matters. I agree that when we get to very powerful systems, the landscape will change. I th... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Roman V. Yampolskiy

  AI safety researcher, Louisville professor

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  If we create general superintelligences, I don’t see a good outcome long-term for humanity. So there is X-risk, existential risk, everyone’s dead. Unverified source (2024)

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  We can't build superintelligence just for superintelligence's sake. [...] It's not going to be a better world if we lose control of it. Unverified source (2025)

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  AI researcher and writer

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  the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Unverified source (2023)

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  Shannon Vallor

  Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh

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  It’s not the machines themselves. It’s the rhetoric of AI today [...] That’s the existential threat. Unverified source (2024)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  we do not yet know how to [...] guarantee the safety of humanity! And yet we are [...] racing ahead towards building such systems. Unverified source (2023)

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  Bill Joy

  Sun Microsystems cofounder; computer scientist

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  I may be working to create tools [...] that may replace our species. How do I feel about this? Very uncomfortable. Unverified source (2000)

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  Bill Gates

  Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.

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  I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough... more Unverified source (2015)

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  But at this point you open up a huge vulnerability-- [...] because humans are not secure systems. Unverified source (2014)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  We cannot sleepwalk into a dystopian future where the power of AI is controlled by a few people Unverified source (2024)

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  Rishi Sunak

  Former UK prime minister

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  And in the most unlikely but extreme cases, there is even the risk that humanity could lose control of AI completely… Unverified source (2023)

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  Pope Francis

  Leader of the Catholic Church

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  ultimately entails a substantial loss of the truth of things, hindering interpersonal communication and threatening our very humanity. Unverified source (2024)

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  Dario Amodei

  Research Scientist at OpenAI

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  AI brings threats to humanity from multiple directions [...]. AI-driven terrorism could kill millions through the misuse of biology [...]. Unverified source (2026)

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  Kamala Harris

  U.S. Vice President, 2021–2025

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  [...] it also has the potential to cause profound harm. [...] they could endanger the very existence of humanity. We must manage all these dangers [...]. Unverified source (2023)

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  Tough luck for the ants. We want to design AI in the future so that we don't end up being those ants. Unverified source (2015)

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  No; you make AI better, you lose. That’s the default condition. [...] the worse the results are for human beings. Unverified source (2020)

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  votes For and says:

  If it takes over, that’s what will happen. We don’t know how to prevent that. In fact, we don’t even know whether preventing it is possible. Unverified source (2025)

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  Elon Musk

  Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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  AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don't think people fully appreciate that, [...] I keep sounding the alarm bell. Unverified source (2017)

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  Stephen Hawking

  Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

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  I fear that AI may replace humans altogether, [...] If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. Unverified source (2017)

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  AI is powerful enough. [...] I don't think humanity will survive. Unverified source (2023)

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  Clem Chambers

  Investor and financial writer

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  AI isn't going to destroy mankind. [...] Machines are incredible to power things but it is only in fantasy that they are malignant. Unverified source (2023)

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  Marc Andreessen

  General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape

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  My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. Unverified source (2023)

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  Pedro Domingos

  Professor of computer science at UW and author of 'The Master Algorithm'

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  I think we're not going too fast at all. In fact, I think we're not going fast enough. If AI is going to do things like cure cancer, do you want to have a cure for cancer years from now or yesterday? What is the point of a six-month moratorium? I don... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Cassie Kozyrkov

  Former Google Chief Decision Scientist

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  Using AI responsibly is our human responsibility. I’m not scared at all, AI is just a tool. But am i scared of people? Maybe. Unverified source (2019)

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  Eric Horvitz

  Microsoft Chief Scientist

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  There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don't think that's going to happen. Unverified source (2015)

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  Steven Pinker

  Cognitive scientist and author

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  There’s nothing inherent in being smart that turns a system into a genocidal maniac. [...] But this is not Artificial Intelligence: it’s Artificial Stupidity. Unverified source (2024)

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  Garry Kasparov

  Chess champion and pro-democracy activist

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  AI is not a magic wand, but it is not a terminator. It’s not a harbinger of utopia or dystopia. Unverified source (2019)

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  Rodney Brooks

  Roboticist; former MIT CSAIL director

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  Some people get all worked up about it [...] but they're not even closed to being poorly intelligent yet. Unverified source (2016)

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  Andrew Ng

  Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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  There's a big difference between intelligence and sentience. [...] I don't worry about the problem of overpopulation on the planet Mars. Unverified source (2015)

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  Oren Etzioni

  AI2 founder; UW professor

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  AI won’t exterminate us. [...] I am an AI researcher and I’m not scared. Here’s why. Unverified source (2014)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  People are mistaken when they imagine that AI systems will have the same motivations as humans. They just won’t. We'll design them not to. Unverified source (2023)

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  Mark Zuckerberg

  Meta CEO; Facebook co-founder

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  With AI, especially, I am really optimistic and I think that people who are naysayers and try to [...] doomsday scenarios are pretty irresponsible. Unverified source (2017)

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