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Sutton's slides for his keynote of 7 July 2023 state that succession to AI need not be viewed as bad and that we should not resist succession but embrace and prepare for it. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-07-07 · event Records dated 2023 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Slides, read without the spoken talk; the slides quote Hans Moravec's Robot (1998) as an earlier statement of the view.
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AI Succession (slides) ↗ Author's site (incompleteideas.net, Talks page) · 2023-07-07
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Source excerpt “It need not be viewed as bad” Location in source Slide "The argument for succession planning" (PDF pp. 8, 11)
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Source details and check notes Authors Rich Sutton Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 ed0341551eb2cd886566b22b7153f551ca2f3bc54282f01ad7a2c6cf966b2046). slides PDF linked from the author's Talks page; retrieved over plain HTTP because the site's HTTPS certificate failed verification. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Rich Sutton, “AI Succession (slides)”, 2023-07-07. 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 (7 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. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
AI Succession (slides) ↗ Author's site (incompleteideas.net, Talks page) · 2023-07-07
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Source excerpt “We should not resist succession, but embrace and prepare for it” Location in source Slide "We should not resist succession, but embrace and prepare for it" (PDF p. 17)
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
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Source details and check notes Authors Rich Sutton Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 ed0341551eb2cd886566b22b7153f551ca2f3bc54282f01ad7a2c6cf966b2046). slides PDF linked from the author's Talks page; retrieved over plain HTTP because the site's HTTPS certificate failed verification. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Rich Sutton, “AI Succession (slides)”, 2023-07-07. 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 (11 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. 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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