Claim · 2023-10-25 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The joint letter of Encode Justice and the Future of Life Institute of October 2023 rejects a choice between addressing documented present harms of AI and potentially catastrophic future threats, and calls for policies that address both.

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What it connects

AI Licensing for a Better Future: On Addressing Both Present Harms and Emerging Threats → contests → Present harms deserve priority

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

AI Licensing for a Better Future: On Addressing Both Present Harms and Emerging Threatscontests ↓Present harms deserve priority

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Date: 2023-10-25 · publication Records dated 2023 →
Role: Contesting
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: Engages a premise. It disputes the premise that attention to future catastrophic risk must come at the expense of present harms.

Scope and limitsA signed organisational letter; it records what the letter says, not the views of each person who supports it. Added on the cross-family check's proposal to balance the proposition's records.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

AI Licensing for a Better Future: On Addressing Both Present Harms and Emerging Threats

Future of Life Institute (futureoflife.org) · 2023-10-25

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Source excerpt

“We must reject the false choice between addressing the documented harms of today and the potentially catastrophic threats of tomorrow.”

Location in source PDF p. 1

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Encode Justice; Future of Life Institute
Version: PDF of the letter served by the Future of Life Institute. The letter's web page gives "Published 25 October, 2023"; the April 2023 folder in the PDF's address is not its date. Retrieved at admission on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 b859123a887c1cd711809ab0e2d76b3ef9b7167a6c4c5b1be52021d14c6d48c9).
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Encode Justice, Future of Life Institute, “AI Licensing for a Better Future: On Addressing Both Present Harms and Emerging Threats”, 2023-10-25.
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Check notes: Added at the admission of the risk-debate pack (research/risk-debate). The quotation (20 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 b859123a887c1cd711809ab0e2d76b3ef9b7167a6c4c5b1be52021d14c6d48c9). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 proposed the record and read this passage. No human editorial review.

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