Ron DeSantis
Role at the time: U.S. political figure; statement on his own public account.
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
DeSantis finds possible loss of human control alarming while suggesting that some AI alarmism is aimed at investors. His post does not endorse a specific extinction probability or explicitly call for a development ban.
“that there is even a possibility that these technologies would elude human control is alarming.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Ron DeSantis on Coxon’s warning and the frontier AI safety debate · Ron DeSantis
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Why we used this label
Acknowledges possible danger while expressing skepticism about some alarmism; contemporaneous commentary rather than an established direct reply.