Claim · 2016-11-02 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Dafoe and Russell's essay of 2 November 2016 answers Etzioni's essay of 20 September 2016, which it names.

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Yes, We Are Worried About the Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence → cites → No, the Experts Don't Think Superintelligent AI is a Threat to Humanity

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Yes, We Are Worried About the Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligencecites ↓No, the Experts Don't Think Superintelligent AI is a Threat to Humanity

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Date: 2016-11-02 · publication Records dated 2016 →

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Yes, We Are Worried About the Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence

MIT Technology Review (online) · 2016-11-02

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Source excerpt

“Oren Etzioni, a well-known AI researcher, complains about news coverage of potential long-term risks arising from future success in AI research”

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Authors: Allan Dafoe; Stuart Russell
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 1fe01ed83e2ee3b4c74e8d322d779ca3c1fadbebc8b6a74843bc1b12d833ccf3). Current online article, followed on the page by a response from Etzioni (not quoted). 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: Allan Dafoe, Stuart Russell, “Yes, We Are Worried About the Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence”, 2016-11-02.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (21 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. No human editorial review.

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