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Bostrom’s paper “The Superintelligent Will” (May 2012) states the orthogonality thesis: intelligence and final goals are orthogonal axes along which possible artificial agents can freely vary. Copy claim link
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Date 2012-05 · publication Records dated 2012 → Role Contesting, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “orthogonality” Engagement Engages a premise. Disputes the premise that the final goals of an advanced intelligence depend on its intelligence. Scope and limits States that final goals are independent of intelligence; it does not discuss the growth of intelligence as an end. Not evidence of coinage of the term. Earliest located means the earliest text found by the collection’s searches and the cross-family re-check of 2026-11-02, not a first statement.
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The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents ↗ Author's site (nickbostrom.com); published in Minds and Machines 22(2), May 2012 · 2012-05
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Source excerpt “Intelligence and final goals are orthogonal axes along which possible agents can freely vary. In other words, more or less any level of intelligence could in principle be combined with more or less any final goal.” Location in source Section 1.2, PDF p. 3
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Source details and check notes Authors Nick Bostrom Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 4bf5ce7c3d974e4ef889b98a89b248861787baa986b8bc13afe401a2346cebaf). author's PDF headed '[Minds and Machines, Vol. 22, Iss. 2, May 2012]'; PDF metadata created 2012-03-17, modified 2021-12-24; the journal's typeset version was not compared. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Nick Bostrom, “The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents”, 2012-05. 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 Quotation matched on 2026-11-02 against the held source, retrieved on 2026-11-02 from the source’s evidence URL (SHA-256 4bf5ce7c3d974e4ef889b98a89b248861787baa986b8bc13afe401a2346cebaf). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms; “…” joins fragments that occur in order. Cross-family pass: the re-check of 2026-11-02 (review/earliest-located-recheck-2026-11-02.md, role 28) read this text for this proposition and role. Admitted by the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-02. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents ↗ Author's site (nickbostrom.com); published in Minds and Machines 22(2), May 2012 · 2012-05
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Source excerpt “The orthogonality thesis suggests that we cannot blithely assume that a superintelligence will necessarily share any of the final values stereotypically associated with wisdom and intellectual development in humans” Location in source Conclusions, PDF p. 14
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Source details and check notes Authors Nick Bostrom Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 4bf5ce7c3d974e4ef889b98a89b248861787baa986b8bc13afe401a2346cebaf). author's PDF headed '[Minds and Machines, Vol. 22, Iss. 2, May 2012]'; PDF metadata created 2012-03-17, modified 2021-12-24; the journal's typeset version was not compared. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Nick Bostrom, “The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents”, 2012-05. 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 Quotation matched on 2026-11-02 against the held source, retrieved on 2026-11-02 from the source’s evidence URL (SHA-256 4bf5ce7c3d974e4ef889b98a89b248861787baa986b8bc13afe401a2346cebaf). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms; “…” joins fragments that occur in order. Cross-family pass: the re-check of 2026-11-02 (review/earliest-located-recheck-2026-11-02.md, role 28) read this text for this proposition and role. Admitted by the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-02. 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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