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Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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Frontier AI systems could surpass most individuals across most cognitive tasks within just a few years. These advances could unlock solutions to major global challenges, but they also carry significant risks. To safely advance toward superintelligenc... more Verified source (2025)

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district; lead sponsor of the DEFIANCE Act

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Congress has a moral obligation to stand with the American people and stop the expansion of these data centers until we have a framework to adequately address the existential harm AI poses to our society. Unverified source (2026)

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Joe Carlsmith
Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy; writes on AI safety, alignment, and existential risk from power-seeking AI

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we would indeed see significant (read: multi-year) restraint on the development of artificial superintelligence while we improve our understanding of how to ensure its safety. [...] A wiser and more coordinated civilization would likely be employing ... more Unverified source (2026)

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Stuart J. Russell
AI Expert and Professor

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For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. Unverified source (2026)

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Duncan Cass-Beggs
Executive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); former OECD Senior Counsellor for Strategic Foresight

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The whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait — let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working together internati... more Unverified source (2026)

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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. Unverified source (2026)

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Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Scottish hereditary peer; Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; AI safety advocate

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I urge the Government to take three steps: first, to publicly recognise that superintelligence poses an extinction threat to humanity; secondly, for the UK to prevent the development of superintelligence on its soil; and, thirdly, for the UK to resum... more Unverified source (2026)

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Holly Elmore
Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate

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We need to Pause frontier AI development if we're ever going to have time and latitude to even see if superintelligence could be safe and respect human consent. And if we find out it can't be, then we need to keep superintelligence paused forever. Unverified source (2026)

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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Stephen Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath; Labour peer; UK House of Lords; former Minister of State

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A moratorium and binding international regulation of ASI is, frankly, our only hope, however hard it will be to agree. It will be even harder to enforce, but we have to do it; there is no choice. Unverified source (2026)

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Connor Leahy
Conjecture CEO; AI safety researcher

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The primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place. Unsafe ASI is vastly easier to build than controlled ASI, and is on the same tech path. [...] The ... more Unverified source (2026)

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Nate Soares
AI safety researcher; MIRI president

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You don't need to give up ChatGPT. You don't need to give up self-driving cars. You don't need to give up on the medical advancements. [...] It's not that the current use needs to stop. It's just that the race to make smarter and smarter machines tha... more Unverified source (2026)

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Tristan Harris
Center for Humane Technology cofounder

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What are we beating them to? We're beating them to something that we don't know how to control and we are not on track to control. Unverified source (2026)

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Andrea Miotti
Founder and CEO of ControlAI

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Canada should publicly recognize superintelligent AI as a national and global security threat. [...] Canada should protect its citizens at home and lead by example abroad by prohibiting the development of superintelligent AI on its soil. Unverified source (2026)

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, author, science communicator

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That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans. Unverified source (2026)

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Demis Hassabis
Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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Maybe it would be good to have a slightly slower pace, so that we can get this right societally. [...] Asked whether he would advocate for a pause in AI development if every company and country joined in, Hassabis responded: "I think so." He added th... more Unverified source (2026)

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Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft AI CEO; author

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For all the talk about AI alignment, I worry we're putting the cart before the horse. You can't steer something you can't control. People often talk about containment and alignment in the same breath, but they're not interchangeable or a package deal... more Unverified source (2026)

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Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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Time is running out. The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want. That means building public will and s... more AI Verified source (2025)

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Toby Ord
Oxford philosopher; The Precipice author

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When it comes to scientific moratoriums, we’ve got some examples, such as the moratorium on human cloning and the moratorium on human germline genetic engineering — that’s genetic engineering that’s inherited down to the children, that could lead to ... more AI Verified source (2025)

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ControlAI
Campaign to prohibit superintelligence development

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prevent the development of artificial superintelligence and keep humanity in control. [...] inform every relevant person in the democratic process. AI Verified source (2025)

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PauseAI
Global campaign to pause frontier AI

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We’re calling for a ban on more powerful general AI systems, until we know how to build provably safe AI, and [...] under democratic control. AI Verified source (2025)

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Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher

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I really empathize for them, frankly, because they’re so stuck in this race to the bottom that they just feel an irresistible pressure to keep going and not get overtaken by the other guy. I think that’s why it’s so important to stigmatize the race t... more Verified source (2025)

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Samuel Buteau
AI researcher and PhD candidate at Mila (Quebec AI Institute).

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Barring an international agreement, humanity will quite likely not have the ability to build safe superintelligence by the time the first superintelligence is built. Therefore, pursuing superintelligence at this stage is quite likely to cause the per... more Verified source (2025)

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John Wolfsthal
American nuclear security expert and former special assistant to the U.S. President for National Security Affairs.

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The discussion over AGI should not be cast as a struggle between so called doomers and optimists. AGI presents a common challenge for all of humanity. We must ensure we control technology and it does not control us. Until and unless developers and th... more Verified source (2025)

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Mark Beall
President of Government Affairs at the AI Policy Network.

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When AI researchers warn of extinction and tech leaders build doomsday bunkers, prudence demands we listen. Superintelligence without proper safeguards could be the ultimate expression of human hubris—power without moral restraint. Verified source (2025)

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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Superintelligence would likely break the very operating system of human civilization - and is completely unnecessary. If we instead focus on building controllable AI tools to help real people today, we can far more reliably and safely realize AI’s in... more Verified source (2025)

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Walter Kim
Korean American evangelical pastor and president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

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If we race to build superintelligence without clear and morally informed parameters, we risk undermining the incredible potential AI has to alleviate suffering and enable flourishing. We should intentionally harness this amazing technology to help pe... more Verified source (2025)

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
American actor and entrepreneur

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Yeah, we want specific AI tools that can help cure diseases, strengthen national security, etc. But does AI also need to imitate humans, groom our kids, turn us all into slop junkies and make zillions of dollars serving ads? Most people don’t want th... more Verified source (2025)

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Member of the British royal family

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The future of AI should serve humanity, not replace it. The true test of progress will be not how fast we move, but how wisely we steer. Verified source (2025)

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Johnnie Moore
American evangelical leader and businessman, founder of The Kairos Company and chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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We should rapidly develop powerful AI tools that help cure diseases and solve practical problems, but not autonomous smarter-than-human machines that nobody knows how to control. Creating superintelligent machines is not only unacceptably dangerous a... more Verified source (2025)

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Mary Robinson
Former Irish president; Elders chair

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AI offers extraordinary promise to advance human rights, tackle inequality, and protect our planet, but the pursuit of superintelligence threatens to undermine the very foundations of our common humanity. We must act with both ambition and responsibi... more Verified source (2025)

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Stephen Fry
British writer, comedian and actor

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To get the most from what AI has to offer mankind, there is simply no need to reach for the unknowable and highly risky goal of superintelligence, which is by far a frontier too far. By definition this would result in a power that we could neither un... more Verified source (2025)

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Roman V. Yampolskiy
AI safety researcher, Louisville professor

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The condition would be not time, but capabilities. Pause until you can do X, Y, Z. And if I’m right and you cannot, it’s impossible, then it becomes a permanent ban. But if you’re right, and it’s possible, so as soon as you have those safety capabili... more AI Verified source (2024)

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Geoffrey Hinton
Godfather of Deep Learning

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I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it. We’ve entered completely unknown territory. We’re capable of building machines that are stronger than ourselves, but what if we develop machines that... more AI Verified source (2023)

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Elon Musk
Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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If I could put a pause on AI or really advanced AI, superintelligence, I would. It doesn’t seem that is realistic. AI Verified source (2023)

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Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI researcher and writer

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The moratorium on new large training runs needs to be indefinite and worldwide. There can be no exceptions, including for governments or militaries. If the policy starts with the U.S., then China needs to see that the U.S. is not seeking an advantage... more Verified source (2023)

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Bill Joy
Sun Microsystems cofounder; computer scientist

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We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes. Have we already gone too far down the path to alter course? I don’t believe so, but we aren’t trying yet, and the last chance to assert control—the fail-safe point—is r... more AI Verified source (2000)

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Joe Allen
American writer and transhumanism commentator, War Room correspondent.

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If superintelligence is achievable and the public buys in, then I'm out. Verified source

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

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Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle, which would have prevented virtually all progress since man first harnessed fire. The Precautionary Principle was invented to prevent the large‑scale deployment of civilian nuclear power, perhaps the most cat... more Verified source (2023)

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Lord Patel of Bradford
Narendra Babubhai Patel KT; Member of the UK House of Lords; crossbench peer

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I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite... more AI Verified source (2026)

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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... more Unverified source (2026)

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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic

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The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries wo... more Unverified source (2026)

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Jared Kaplan
Anthropic chief scientist

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We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models. We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead. Unverified source (2026)

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Emily M. Bender
Linguist; AI critic

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Treating speculative “superintelligence” as the policy target and proposing to freeze development until there’s public buy‑in and scientific consensus distracts from the actual, present‑day harms of AI systems. These systems are already amplifying di... more AI Verified source (2025)

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Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Chief Scientist

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Guidance, regulation, reliability, and controls are part of advancing the field—done properly, they can even speed it up. But a blanket prohibition on development until some vague threshold of public buy‑in and universal scientific consensus is reach... more AI Verified source (2025)

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Jensen Huang
Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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AI is a foundational technology that every country, every industry, and every person will ultimately rely on. You can’t slam on the brakes and wait for some abstract consensus before building the future. We should not be putting up stop signs to prog... more AI Unverifiable source (2024)

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Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO; tech investor

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I’m not in favor of a six-month pause because it will simply benefit China. What I am in favor of is getting everybody together to discuss what are the appropriate guardrails. So, I’m in favor of letting the industry try to get its act together. This... more AI Verified source (2023)

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Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Over

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I disagree. A slowdown would politicize AI development... and could induce a talent drain. [...] The risk is that the delay could be extended indefinitely. AI Verified source (2023)

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Bill Gates
Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.

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I don’t really understand who they’re saying could stop, and would every country in the world agree to stop, and why to stop. AI Verified source (2023)

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Bloomberg Opinion Editors
Editorial board of Bloomberg Opinion

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This is a formula for outright stagnation. [...] regulators should let entrepreneurship flourish while efforts to monitor and improve AI safety proceed in parallel. AI Verified source (2023)

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Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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My opinion is that the moratorium that we should focus on is actually deployment until we have good safety cases. I don't know that we need to pause that particular project, but I do think its emphasis on focusing more on AI safety, on trustworthy, r... more AI Verified source (2023)

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Andrew Ng
Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain

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The call for a 6 month moratorium on making AI progress beyond GPT-4 is a terrible idea. I’m seeing many new applications in education, healthcare, food, … that’ll help many people. Improving GPT-4 will help. Lets balance the huge value AI is creatin... more AI Verified source (2023)

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Yann LeCun
Computer scientist, AI researcher

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My first reaction to [the Pause Giant AI Experiments letter] is that calling for a delay in research and development smacks me of a new wave of obscurantism. AI Verified source (2023)

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OpenAI
AI research organization

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We are likely to eventually need something like an IAEA for superintelligence efforts; any effort above a certain capability (or resources like compute) threshold will need to be subject to an international authority that can inspect systems, require... more AI Verified source (2023)

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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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But the governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight. We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults for AI systems. Second, w... more Verified source (2023)

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Ben Goertzel
SingularityNET founder; AGI researcher

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I don’t think Nick Bostrom or anyone else is going to stop the human race from developing advanced AI because it’s a source of tremendous intellectual curiosity but also of tremendous economic advantage. So if let’s say President Trump decided to ban... more AI Verified source (2022)

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