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Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler

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Without AI safeguards, we may soon face epistemic chaos, engineered pandemics, and systematic human rights violations. History teaches us that when confronted with irreversible, borderless threats, cooperation is the only rational way to pursue national interests.

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler

In the September 2025 press release launching the Global Call for AI Red Lines, Maria Ressa said that without AI safeguards we may soon face epistemic chaos, engineered pandemics, and systematic human rights violations, and that cooperation is the only rational way to pursue national interests when threats are irreversible and borderless.

Nobel Peace Prize LaureateSeptember 22, 2025Launch of the Global Call for AI Red Lines during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly

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Establishing red lines is a crucial step towards preventing unacceptable AI risks." Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: "Without AI safeguards, we may soon face epistemic chaos, engineered pandemics, and systematic human rights violations. History teaches us that when confronted with irreversible, borderless threats, cooperation is the only rational way to pursue national interests. is the only rational way to pursue national interests.”

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  • This is an issuer-supplied launch quotation rather than an independently transcribed recording of Ressa delivering the words.
  • The live campaign page renders 'systematic human rights violation' in the singular, while the dated press-release PDF used here says 'systematic human rights violations' in the plural.

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LLMs are imperfect and have an error rate as high as 79% and at best, maybe 16%. The chatbot we built in Rappler, which is anchored in the content we own, has an error rate below 2%.

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler

In an interview conducted in August 2025 and published by Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, Maria Ressa said large language models have an error rate as high as 79 percent while the chatbot Rappler built on content it owns has an error rate below 2 percent.

Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler; Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia UniversityAugust 2025Portraits of FoE Defenders interview

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Now this is global. The connections online are global, too. And yet the understanding of how they work is so muted. Let’s take a look at 2023. After the release of ChatGPT, about 23 billion dollars was invested. That became an arms race. LLMs are imperfect and have an error rate as high as 79% and at best, maybe 16%. The chatbot we built in Rappler, which is anchored in the content we own, has an error rate below 2%. You can actually anchor it in facts, but they don’t have the incentive. This year determines if journalism will survive In 2023, with all that investment, startups began crawling news sites.

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  • The publisher states that the interview was edited for length and clarity.
  • The interview around this passage is uniformly critical of generative AI - Ressa says AI is "neither artificial nor intelligent", that "neither social media nor generative AI is anchored in facts", and that the year ahead is "an information Armageddon". The passage distinguishes a fact-anchored system from general LLMs; it is not an endorsement of AI.

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Statements they signed

FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

AI systems must never be allowed to make life or death decisions, especially in military applications during armed conflict or peacetime, law enforcement, border control, healthcare or judicial decisions.

Signed statement: “Global Appeal for Peaceful Human Coexistence” (Rome working group)

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Maria Ressa signed the Global Appeal for Peaceful Human Coexistence, which calls for AI to remain under human control and for binding international red lines and oversight.

Date not establishedGlobal Appeal for Peaceful Human Coexistence

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Nnenna Nwakanma 12. Valerie Pisano 13. Stuart Russell 14. Max Tegmark 15. Marco Trombetti 16. Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez 17. Alexander Waibel 18. will.i.am Also signed by ● Miguel Benasayag ● Giorgio Parisi ● Maria Ressa

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Was listed as a signer of “Global Call for AI Red Lines” (CeSIA, The Future Society, Berkeley CHAI)

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Maria Ressa was listed as a signer of the Global Call for AI Red Lines, which calls for international cooperation to set clear limits that prevent unacceptable AI risks.

Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDate not establishedGlobal Call for AI Red Lines

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History teaches us that when confronted with irreversible, borderless threats, cooperation is the only rational way to pursue national interests. Maria Ressa Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor of Finance and Business Columbia University Former President of Colombia Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Chair The Elders Nobel Peace

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FROM THE SIGNED STATEMENT

When it comes to AI safety and security, openness is an antidote, not a poison.

Signed statement: “Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness” (Mozilla)

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize laureate; co-founder and CEO of Rappler

Signed as part of a group statement. Not spoken.

Maria Ressa was listed as a signer of the Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness, which calls for open, transparent, and broadly accessible approaches to AI to help address current and future harms.

Rappler, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDate not establishedJoint Statement on AI Safety and Openness

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When it comes to AI safety and security, openness is an antidote, not a poison. Signatories - Camille François, Columbia University - Mark Surman, Mozilla - Deborah Raji, UC Berkeley - Maria Ressa Rappler, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - Stella Biderman, EleutherAI - Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study - Arthur Mensch, MistralAI - Marietje Schaake, Stanford University - Abeba Birhane, Mozilla Fellow - Bruce Schneier, Berkman

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