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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  votes For and says:

  Developing strong AI would be the biggest event in human history, but we need to make sure it's not the last event in human history. Unverified source

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  AI researcher and writer

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  votes For and says:

  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. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,” but as in “that is the obvious thing that... more Verified source (2023)

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  votes For and says:

  I used to think it was a long way off, but I now think it's serious and fairly close [...] The alarm bell I’m ringing has to do with the existential threat of them taking control. Unverified source

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  votes For and says:

  they threaten to upend life as we know it: the climate crisis and the ungoverned expansion of artificial intelligence. Unverified source (2025)

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  Pia Lauritzen

  Danish philosopher and leadership adviser

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  votes For and says:

  It poses an existential threat because it offers answers faster than humans can ask the questions that help them contemplate their existence. 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, Unverified source (2017)

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  votes For and says:

  if we humans lose control over our society to machines that are much smarter than us, then things can go just as bad for us. Unverified source (2023)

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  votes For and says:

  the greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, Unverified source (2017)

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  Jaan Tallinn

  Skype co-founder and AI safety donor

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  anyone working at AI labs who thinks the risk of training the next-generation model "blowing up the planet" is less than 1%. Unverified source

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  Stephen Hawking

  Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

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  votes For and says:

  The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Unverified source (2014)

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  votes For and says:

  Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen (for example, an engineered virus with a long incubation ... more Unverified source (2015)

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  Bill Joy

  Sun Microsystems cofounder; computer scientist

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  How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming advances in computing power seem to make it possible by 2030. And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species—to an intelligent robot that can make evolved... more Unverified source (2000)

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  Edward Moore Geist

  Historian of science and nuclear policy

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  votes Against and says:

  The risks of self-improving intelligent machines are grossly exaggerated and ought not serve as a distraction from the existential risks we already face. Unverified source (2015)

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  Eva Hamrud

  Science writer covering AI and technology

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  votes Against and says:

  Despite this, it currently seems to be unlikely to become an existential threat to humanity. Unverified source (2021)

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  Andrew Ng

  Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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  votes Against and says:

  There’s also a lot of hype, that AI will create evil robots with super-intelligence. That’s an unnecessary distraction, Unverified source (2015)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  votes Against and says:

  AI is a "threat to democracy, not to humanity", Unverified source (2023)

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  Melanie Mitchell

  AI researcher; complexity scientist and author

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  votes Against and says:

  There are a lot of kinds of dangers with AI. It can be used to produce disinformation and deepfakes. There are algorithmic biases, like the one I mentioned in the case of facial recognition. Hinton and others go further and say these systems could ac... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  votes Against and says:

  The point is, AI systems, as smart as they might be, will be subservient to us. We set their goals, and they don't have any intrinsic goal that we would build into them to dominate. It would be really stupid to build that. It would also be useless. N... more Unverified source (2024)

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