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AI leaders call for development slowdown amid extinction risk warnings

Ferguson questions whether rapid AI risk consensus signals irrationality

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Historian Niall Ferguson argues that the moment widespread agreement emerges on an issue, rational decision-making probability approaches zero, and warns of cascading AI-enabled crises including financial collapse and pandemics.

Ferguson questions whether rapid AI risk consensus signals irrationality
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“It's not just the next 9/11, enabled by AI, that is coming. It's the next global financial crisis. It's the next pandemic. It might even be the next world war.”

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