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Moravec's essay of 1991 states that, depending on one's point of view, humanity will have produced "a worthy successor", and that the development can be viewed as natural, with intelligent machines viewed as "the children of our minds". Copy claim link
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Date 1991-07 · publication Records dated 1991 → Wording attested 1999-02-09. The cross-family check found the quoted passages in the archive capture of 9 February 1999; the file's bytes differ elsewhere. Role Articulation, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “worthy successor” Scope and limits The text presents the succession reading as one point of view among two. A use of the term is not evidence of coinage. The cross-family check found the quoted passages in an archive capture of 9 February 1999, which attests the wording from that date.
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The Universal Robot ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives printings in Ars Electronica 91 (September 1991), Analog (January 1992) and elsewhere · 1991-07
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Source excerpt “Depending on your point of view, humanity will then have produced a worthy successor, or shaken off some of its inherited limitations and so transformed itself into something quite new.” Location in source Abstract
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 33ee68f71f05c3d3db73c992720d296878d5dd22b253591e9c0149c3b11e3c68). Author-hosted HTML printing "© July 1991 by Hans Moravec" and "(4700 words)". Earliest capture located: 1999-02-09 (not compared). Printed versions not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “The Universal Robot”, 1991-07. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (30 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Contains the usual name "worthy successor". A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 83) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The Universal Robot ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives printings in Ars Electronica 91 (September 1991), Analog (January 1992) and elsewhere · 1991-07
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Source excerpt “Intelligent machines, which are evolving among us, learning our skills, sharing our goals, and being shaped by our values, can be viewed as our children, the children of our minds.” Location in source Section "Mind Children (2050+)"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 33ee68f71f05c3d3db73c992720d296878d5dd22b253591e9c0149c3b11e3c68). Author-hosted HTML printing "© July 1991 by Hans Moravec" and "(4700 words)". Earliest capture located: 1999-02-09 (not compared). Printed versions not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “The Universal Robot”, 1991-07. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (30 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 83) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Informal report of July 1991, per the page and the author's publication list.
Record ID ht-w02-moravec-1991-universal-robot