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Eliezer Yudkowsky"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."Mar 29, 2023
Fei-Fei Li"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."
Marc AndreessenThere's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.Jun 06, 2023
Sam AltmanAGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."
Yoshua BengioCurrent AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.Jun 12, 2023
Gary Marcus"[W]e could have what I would call catastrophic risk rather than existential risk."Sep 11, 2023
Hans Moravec"I don't think humanity will last long under these [space-based AI] conditions."
Irving John Good"The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultra-intelligent machine."
Norbert Wiener"Disastrous results are to be expected... wherever two agencies essentially foreign to each other are coupled in the attempt to achieve a common purpose."
Dario AmodeiAI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.
Yann LeCunConcerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."Jun 15, 2023
Melanie MitchellClaiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."Jul 03, 2023
Rishi SunakWe could "lose control of AI completely" with "incredibly serious" consequences.Oct 26, 2023
John SmartAIs "by virtue of having far greater learning ability than us, will be, must be, far more ethical than us."
Claude Shannon"I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans."
Arthur Clarke"Those who picture machines as active enemies are merely projecting their own aggressive instincts."
Andrew NgThere's a "1/10,000,000 chance" of AI causing human extinction.
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