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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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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  Superintelligence could become extremely powerful and be able to shape the future according to its preferences. If humanity had been sane and had our act together globally, the sensible course of action would be to postpone development of superintel... more Unverified source (2014)

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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 Unverified source (2025)

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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 Unverified 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. Unverified 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 Unverified source (2000)

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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 Unverified 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. Unverified 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. Unverified 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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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 Unverified source (2024)

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  This is not a ban or even a moratorium in the usual sense. It’s simply a proposal to require adequate safety measures for a technology that, according to its developers, has a significant chance to cause human extinction. Is that too much to ask? Verified source (2025)

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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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  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 Unverified source (2025)

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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 Unverified 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 Unverified source (2024)

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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 Unverified source

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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 Unverified 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 Unverified 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. Unverified 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. Unverified 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. Unverified 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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  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. Unverified 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 Unverified 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 Unverified source (2023)

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