Alan Turing’s lecture typescript “Intelligent Machinery, a Heretical Theory” (c. 1951) says that once the machine thinking method had started it would not take long to outstrip human powers, and that at some stage “we should have to expect the machines to take control”, as mentioned in Butler’s Erewhon.

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