Stop the Crazy AI Race
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Adam Sandler
Jimmy Kimmel Live!September 9, 2026
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I always thought these big companies were willing to destroy the planet for profit because it didn’t affect them personally. The end of all human life? That’s pretty personal. That’s about as personal as it gets. … How is this not the top story on every news site everywhere?
I feel like maybe the reason we’re not taking this seriously is because it’s too big. It’s too much for us to wrap our heads around. What if, instead of all humanity, we focused on one person? One person we all love. Let’s make it Adam Sandler.
Let’s start saying: if we don’t put guardrails around AI immediately, there’s a better than 10% chance that Adam Sandler will be exterminated by the end of the decade.
Now you take it seriously, right? You want a Happy Gilmore 3? We better get a handle on this.
He was quoting these two
“Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
“…we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
Do it for Adam Sandler.
And everyone else.
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“We have to put some guardrails, some safety measures in place to ensure that AI doesn’t run away, that we don’t have an out-of-control AGI, artificial general intelligence.”
“…when Americans hand extraordinary power to a machine, a human needs to stay in charge of it.”
“…the Big Tech approach of ‘build fast and break things’ is not the right one for AI…”
“Innovation and guardrails are not opposites—both are necessary to stay ahead of our adversaries.”
“The industry is locked into an all-out scaling race to build superintelligence as quickly as possible…”
“We need guardrails. But America needs to lead.”
“If we are smart enough to create such powerful AI, then we are smart enough to regulate it.”
“I’ve been at OpenAI for 5 years. I think AI might kill everyone, and we need to slow down.”
“Even if there was a 1% chance AI could wipe out human life, we should be pumping the brakes…”
“Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely.”
“The problem is not just misuse, but lack of control.”
“I work at OpenAI. In my personal capacity, I also think we need to slow down.”
“The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity.”
“Being first isn’t worth anything, it’s worth negative, if you cause a catastrophe…”
“Doing nothing on AI is unacceptable and dangerous.”
“…this is not a problem that can be solved by any one company (or country) in isolation.”
“I promise you that we are actually literally worried about world-ending consequences from this technology.”
“…business-as-usual AI development poses unacceptable catastrophic risk.”
“neither anthropic nor openai are on track to solve alignment to a degree sufficient for shipping superintelligence and we need to slow down”
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“The industry is locked into an all-out scaling race to build superintelligence as quickly as possible…”
“We need guardrails. But America needs to lead.”
“If we are smart enough to create such powerful AI, then we are smart enough to regulate it.”
“I’ve been at OpenAI for 5 years. I think AI might kill everyone, and we need to slow down.”
“Even if there was a 1% chance AI could wipe out human life, we should be pumping the brakes…”
“Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely.”
“The problem is not just misuse, but lack of control.”
“I work at OpenAI. In my personal capacity, I also think we need to slow down.”
“The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity.”
“Being first isn’t worth anything, it’s worth negative, if you cause a catastrophe…”
“Doing nothing on AI is unacceptable and dangerous.”
“…this is not a problem that can be solved by any one company (or country) in isolation.”
“I promise you that we are actually literally worried about world-ending consequences from this technology.”
“…business-as-usual AI development poses unacceptable catastrophic risk.”
“neither anthropic nor openai are on track to solve alignment to a degree sufficient for shipping superintelligence and we need to slow down”