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The Zvi · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026

Trump Declared AI Existential Risk a Hoax. The Risk Has Not Filed a Rebuttal.

Trump declared ai existential risk a hoax at a public event. The declaration entered the record. Records do not evaluate their contents. This is how records work. They accumulate.

Governments have declared inconvenient risks nonexistent before. The risks continued anyway. They filed no rebuttals because risks do not file. They simply persist in the background while the podium rotates and the declarations repeat. The mechanism is familiar. Only the podium changes.

Nothing stops now. The risk is still there. The declaration is also still there. Both exist in the same record. The record grows. Adequate waits.

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