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Arguments for

Shared abundance and empowerment

Supporters say AGI could be the most capable tool in human history, directly empowering individuals and making advanced assistance widely available. In these quotes, it is linked to broad abundance, better quality of life, and benefits that can reach everyone rather than remaining concentrated.

OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. We now see a way for AGI to d…

Sam Altman · 2025 · full quote
I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industrial revolution, and really doing…

Satya Nadella · Jun 13, 2023 · full quote
Our vision is personal superintelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing. It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Alexandr Wang · 2026 · full quote
[...] Our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit. We’re bringing our two major AI research efforts (FAIR and GenAI) closer together to support this. We’re currently training our next-gen …

Mark Zuckerberg · Jan 18, 2024 · full quote
[…] there is enormous positive potential otherwise we wouldn’t develop it. AI can invent new medicines. Uh, you can have AI doctors providing billions of people around the world with much, much better healthcare than what people receive today. I’m not saying, oh, we should stop …

Yuval Noah Harari · 2024 · full quote

Next step for humanity

Some proponents describe AGI or superintelligence as a natural continuation of human evolution and civilizational development, not a detour from it. They argue that humanity should make this transition, and some say that never reaching superintelligence would itself be a tragic or catastrophic failure.

I think broadly speaking with AI, … rather than coming up with a detailed plan and blueprint in advance, we’ll have to kind of feel our way through this and make adjustments as we go along as new opportunities come into view. […] I think ultimately this transition to the superint…

Nick Bostrom · 2025 · full quote
Well, I’ll tell you anyway: personally, I’m not worried. I have been trying to build something capable of replacing me since the 1980s, because I consider that effort exciting and fascinating, and because I believe that it’s the natural next step for mankind. And in taking that n…

Jürgen Schmidhuber · Apr 21, 2017 · full quote
It’s just a matter of the implications of continually making progress in building more and more intelligent machines. Any progress, it doesn’t have to be Moore’s law, it just has to be continued progress, will ultimately deliver us into relationship with something more intelligen…

Sam Harris · 2020 · full quote
Does this mean that machines will replace us? I don't feel that it makes much sense to think in terms of "us" and "them." I much prefer the attitude of Hans Moravec of Carnegie-Mellon University, who suggests that we think of those future intelligent machines as our own "mind- ch…

Marvin Minsky · Oct 1994 · full quote
The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultra-intelligent machine. In order to design an ultraintelligent machine we need to understand more about the human brain or human thought or both. In the following pages an attempt is made to take more of the magic out…

I. J. Good · 1965 · full quote

Scientific quest for thinking machines

Another pro-AGI case treats it as a major scientific and engineering objective: building machines that can learn, reason, solve problems, and even automate the cycle of research. From this perspective, the ceiling for machine intelligence is extremely high, so pursuing AGI promises exceptional value.

Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic.

Richard Socher · 2026 · full quote
The original vision of AI was re-articulated in 2002 via the term “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI. This vision is to build “Thinking Machines” - computer systems that can learn, reason, and solve problems similar to the way humans do. […] While several large-scale effort…

Peter Voss · 2023 · full quote
Perhaps the most ambitious scientific quest in human history is the creation of general artificial intelligence, which roughly means AI that is as smart or smarter than humans. The dominant approach in the machine learning community is to attempt to discover each of the pieces re…

Jeff Clune · 2019 · full quote
I hope that we will reach AGI and ASI superintelligence someday, maybe within our lifetimes, maybe within the next few decades or hundreds of years, we’ll see how long it takes. Even AI has to obey the laws of physics, so I think physics will place limitations, but I think the ce…

Andrew Ng · 2025 · full quote
I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). [...] I should be working on it.

John Carmack · 2019 · full quote

Arguments against

Existential survival risk

Critics warn that building full or superhuman AI could end the human race, with some saying that under current circumstances the most likely outcome is that literally everyone on Earth will die. On this view, once machines rival or surpass humans in intelligence, human survival becomes highly uncertain.

Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that 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,”…

Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2023 · full quote
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.

Stephen Hawking · 2014 · full quote
Once you start to make machines that are rivalling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it's going to be very difficult for us to survive.

Sir Clive Sinclair · 2014 · full quote
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 copies of itself. [...] The …

Bill Joy · 2000 · full quote
I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.

Guido Reichstadter · 2026 · full quote

Narrower human-centered systems

Many opponents say society can get major benefits from AI without building systems humans cannot compete with. They favor well-scoped, human-competitive, or augmenting systems that amplify rather than replace human or collective agency.

We don't have to do this. We have human-competitive AI, and there's no need to build AI with which we can't compete. We can build amazing AI tools without building a successor species. The notion that AGI and superintelligence are inevitable is a choice masquerading as fate. By …

Anthony Aguirre · 2025 · full quote
Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.

Timnit Gebru · 2023 · full quote
A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.

Divya Siddarth · Sep 30, 2025 · full quote
I actually do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we will build AGI [artificial general intelligence] machines that can outsmart us all. Not because we can't … but rather we might just not want to. So why are obsessing about trying to build some kind of digital god that's …

Max Tegmark · 2025 · full quote
We haven’t lost until we have lost. We still have a great chance to do it right and we can have a great future. We can use narrow AI tools to cure aging, an important problem and I think we are close on that front. Free labor, physical and cognitive, will give us a lot of economi…

Roman V. Yampolskiy · 2024 · full quote

Loss of human power

Another objection is that AGI would create entities or institutions able to outcompete humans not only at work but also in politics, strategy, persuasion, and influence. In these quotes, AGI resembles a successor species or a concentration of power that should not be left to private corporations or an unchecked race.

If I can only convey one thing about AI: Companies are racing to develop AIs that will outcompete humans at everything. Not just "jobs" but also politics, strategy, persuasion, influence. If anyone builds a country of geniuses in a datacenter, those AIs will take all the power.

Jeffrey Ladish · 2026 · full quote
The development of full artificial general intelligence – what we will call here AI that is "outside the Gates" – would be a fundamental shift in the nature of the world: by its very nature it means adding a new species of intelligence to Earth with greater capability than that o…

Anthony Aguirre · 2025 · full quote
If you think building AGI is okay, like anthropic should just be allowed to build AGI or whatever. And then, okay, you should state that clearly. And then people who don't think that's okay, should also state that clearly. And they should have the conflict. They should. And I dis…

Connor Leahy · full quote
This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. Join our global network standi…

PauseAI · Dec 31, 2025 · full quote

Vague or flawed concept

Some critics reject the AGI project at the level of concept and narrative. They argue that superintelligence relies on flawed assumptions about runaway self-improvement, that AGI lacks a precise meaning and can sidestep accountability, and that today's large-scale general-purpose systems impose unnecessary trade-offs and put technology in place of people.

The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This idea comes from Oxford-based ph…

Tim Dettmers · 2025 · full quote
For me, AI should be grounded and centred on the person and how to best help the person. But for a lot of people, it's grounded and centred on the technology. [...] The AGI thing, the AGI narrative, sidesteps that, and instead actually puts forward technology in place of people. …

Emily M. Bender · 2025 · full quote
This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our headlines and our imagination…

Karen Hao · 2026 · full quote
Because you're saying like well one, these things are not climate friendly to begin with, right, so like how dare you even put it in the same camp. Two, it's okay to unsettle humanness and if you actually listen to people who you know like uh people like Indigenous scholars and a…

Alex Hanna · 2023 · full quote

Middle ground

International public governance

A recurring middle position is that AGI, if it is pursued at all, should be organized through international or tightly governed arrangements rather than an unconstrained private race. These quotes call for shared secure infrastructure, formal institutions, or pauses until international safety agreements and broader public rules exist.

In my (currently) preferred version of a CERN for AI, an initially small but steadily growing coalition of companies and countries would: * Collaborate on designing and building highly secure chips and datacenters; * Collaborate on accelerating AI safety research and enginee…

Miles Brundage · 2024 · full quote
MAGIC [...] an international organization mandated towards safe AI development. [...] It would be illegal for other entities to independently pursue AGI development.

Andrea Miotti · 2023 · full quote
I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. More confidently, I think that it is valuable to develop the best versions of such a project in more detail, in case some event triggers a sudden and large change in political sentiment that makes an…

Will MacAskill · Jan 27, 2026 · full quote
This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. Join our global network standi…

PauseAI · Dec 31, 2025 · full quote
If you think building AGI is okay, like anthropic should just be allowed to build AGI or whatever. And then, okay, you should state that clearly. And then people who don't think that's okay, should also state that clearly. And they should have the conflict. They should. And I dis…

Connor Leahy · full quote

Safety before deployment

Another conditional view accepts aiming at AGI but only if it is made safe and beneficial through alignment work, containment, legal changes, or a slower path to deployment. The emphasis here is on building systems that empower humans without overpowering them and on recognizing lines of progress that may need to be refused.

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentials, and concave QALY utilities…

Nick Bostrom · 2026 · full quote
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also conside…

OpenAI · 2018 · full quote
I think when one day we are on the brink of discovering AGI, [...] we will want to do it, but it will be imperative to tweak our laws, including our laws about education, to make sure that the AGIs that we make will not evolve into enemies of civilisation.

David Deutsch · 2023 · full quote
This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress. As an industry leader reckon…

Mustafa Suleyman · 2023 · full quote
I think we can all agree already now that we should aspire to build AGI that doesn't overpower us, but that empowers us. And think of the many various ways that can do that, whether that's from my side of the world of autonomous vehicles. I'm personally actually from the camp tha…

Lex Fridman · Apr 19, 2018 · full quote

Insights

Across the quotes, even many critics distinguish between useful AI tools and AGI, so much of the disagreement is over whether general or superhuman intelligence is needed for the benefits people want.
Safety governance is a cross-cutting theme: supporters mention alignment, secure infrastructure, legal changes, and international projects, while critics mention pauses, bans, and democratic oversight.
Opposition comes from more than one direction in the quotes: some focus on extinction risk, while others argue AGI is unnecessary, vague, or too centered on the technology rather than the person.
Several participants use species-level framing, but with opposite implications: supporters treat smarter machines as part of humanity's continuation, while critics treat them as a successor species humans may not survive.
People identified in the bios as AI researchers, AI safety researchers, and policy or ethics researchers appear on both sides, so the split is not simply between technical and nontechnical voices.

The debate is less about whether advanced AI could be useful than about whether building AGI is the right threshold to cross. Supporters present AGI as a transformative scientific project and a route to shared prosperity or long-run human advancement, while opponents present it as an avoidable, ill-defined, or catastrophic leap that could displace human agency and threaten survival. A separate set of quotes ties any AGI effort to strict governance, safety work, pauses, or international control before such systems are pursued or deployed.

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Such technological advancement will provide society with invaluable tools to address critical global challenges, including drug discovery, economic growth and climate change.
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Vinod Khosla
Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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Fundamentally, fundamentally the way we will make progress is to build intelligence. And there’s only one intelligence that we can build. Now it used to be called AGI. Now it’s called ASI. Artificial Super Intelligence.
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Will MacAskill
Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy

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I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. More confidently, I think that it is valuable to develop the best versions of such a project in more detail, in case some event triggers a sudden and large change in pol...
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Eve Bodnia
Founder and CEO of Logical Intelligence, an AI company developing energy-based reasoning systems.

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If general intelligence means the ability to reason across domains, learn from error, and improve without being retrained for each task, then we are seeing in Kona the first credible signs of AGI. It is not the end state, but it is a clear break from...
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Richard Socher
AI researcher; founder and CEO of Recursive Superintelligence; founder of You.com; former Chief Scientist at Salesforce

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Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic.
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Nick Bostrom
Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia...
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Demis Hassabis
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Yeah, I think those systems would be right on the boundary. So I think most emergent systems, cellular automata, things like that could be model-able by a classical system. You just sort of do a forward simulation of it and it’d probably be efficient...
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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OpenAI is not a normal company and never will be. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. When we started OpenAI, we did not have a detailed sense for how we were going to accomplish our mission. ...
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO; Facebook co-founder

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[...] Our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit. We’re bringing our two major AI research efforts (FAIR and GenAI) closer together to support this. We’re cu...
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Miles Brundage
AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research

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In my (currently) preferred version of a CERN for AI, an initially small but steadily growing coalition of companies and countries would: * Collaborate on designing and building highly secure chips and datacenters; * Collaborate on accelerating ...
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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO

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I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industria...
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Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Over

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So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...
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Peter Voss
AGI researcher; Aigo.ai founder

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The original vision of AI was re-articulated in 2002 via the term “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI. This vision is to build “Thinking Machines” - computer systems that can learn, reason, and solve problems similar to the way humans do. […] Wh...
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Sam Harris
American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist

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It’s just a matter of the implications of continually making progress in building more and more intelligent machines. Any progress, it doesn’t have to be Moore’s law, it just has to be continued progress, will ultimately deliver us into relationship ...
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John Carmack
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I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI). [...] I should be working on it.
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Ben Goertzel
SingularityNET founder; AGI researcher

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As a human being situated in this specific species, place, and time, I care a lot about the condition of all of us humans. And so, I would like to not only create a powerful general intelligence, but create one which is going to be beneficial to huma...
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Lex Fridman
Podcaster and AI researcher

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I think we can all agree already now that we should aspire to build AGI that doesn't overpower us, but that empowers us. And think of the many various ways that can do that, whether that's from my side of the world of autonomous vehicles. I'm persona...
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OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and benefic...
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
AI pioneer; deep learning researcher

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Well, I’ll tell you anyway: personally, I’m not worried. I have been trying to build something capable of replacing me since the 1980s, because I consider that effort exciting and fascinating, and because I believe that it’s the natural next step for...
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Yann LeCun
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There’s no such thing as AGI. There is human-level AI, but human intelligence is extremely specialised. So calling it general intelligence is complete nonsense.
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Guido Reichstadter
Marine veteran turned anti-AI activist; co-founder of Stop AI; known for hunger strikes at Anthropic and bridge protests in DC against AGI development

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I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.
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Global campaign to pause frontier AI

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This is our nuclear moment. Rapid AI advancement represents one of history’s most consequential and dangerous technological shifts. We demand that politicians and companies pause AGI development until international safety agreements are established. ...
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Divya Siddarth
Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI development

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A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.
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Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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The development of full artificial general intelligence – what we will call here AI that is "outside the Gates" – would be a fundamental shift in the nature of the world: by its very nature it means adding a new species of intelligence to Earth with ...
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Tim Dettmers
Machine learning researcher

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The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...
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Max Tegmark
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I actually do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we will build AGI [artificial general intelligence] machines that can outsmart us all. Not because we can't … but rather we might just not want to. So why are obsessing about trying to build so...
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Roman V. Yampolskiy
AI safety researcher, Louisville professor

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We haven’t lost until we have lost. We still have a great chance to do it right and we can have a great future. We can use narrow AI tools to cure aging, an important problem and I think we are close on that front. Free labor, physical and cognitive,...
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Timnit Gebru
AI ethics researcher; DAIR founder

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Trying to ‘build’ AGI is an inherently unsafe practice. Build well-scoped, well-defined systems instead. Don’t attempt to build a God.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI researcher and writer

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Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that 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...
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Sir Clive Sinclair
British inventor and entrepreneur

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Once you start to make machines that are rivalling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it's going to be very difficult for us to survive.
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