Claim · 2023-03-31 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The statement of 31 March 2023 by Gebru, Bender and McMillan-Major describes the risks named in the pause letter as hypothetical, calls the letter fearmongering and AI hype, and argues that such language misattributes agency to the systems.

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What it connects

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter → articulates → Risk claims are speculative or unfalsifiable

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letterarticulates ↓Risk claims are speculative or unfalsifiable

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2023-03-31 · publication Records dated 2023 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsThe statement characterises the letter's risks; it gives no separate argument about evidence for them.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter

DAIR Institute blog (dair-institute.org) · 2023-03-31

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Source excerpt

“these are overshadowed by fearmongering and AI hype, which steers the discourse to the risks of imagined "powerful digital minds" with "human-competitive intelligence."

Location in source Paragraph 2

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Timnit Gebru; Emily M. Bender; Angelina McMillan-Major
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 794c5c0ce1d0c8bb18d5137511abe280e3c4b2b00eb9ab550fb7bacf436829cb). Current blog page dated March 31, 2023; byline as printed on the page (three names). The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Timnit Gebru, Emily M. Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major, “Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter”, 2023-03-31.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (23 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 112) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter

DAIR Institute blog (dair-institute.org) · 2023-03-31

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Source excerpt

“It is dangerous to distract ourselves with a fantasized AI-enabled utopia or apocalypse”

Location in source Paragraph 3

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Timnit Gebru; Emily M. Bender; Angelina McMillan-Major
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 794c5c0ce1d0c8bb18d5137511abe280e3c4b2b00eb9ab550fb7bacf436829cb). Current blog page dated March 31, 2023; byline as printed on the page (three names). The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Timnit Gebru, Emily M. Bender, Angelina McMillan-Major, “Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the "AI pause" letter”, 2023-03-31.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 112) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review.

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Record ID rd-r11-dair-2023-statement