Claim · 2023-07-07 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Sutton's slides for his keynote of 7 July 2023 state that we are in the midst of a major step in the evolution of the planet, if not the universe, from ordinary humans to enhanced humans and then AIs.

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What it connects

AI Succession → articulates → Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic process

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

AI Successionarticulates ↓Machine intelligence as a physical or cosmic process

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2023-07-07 · event Records dated 2023 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsSlides, read without the spoken talk.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

AI Succession (slides)

Author's site (incompleteideas.net, Talks page) · 2023-07-07

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Source excerpt

“We are in the midst of a major step in the evolution of the planet, if not the universe”

Location in source Slide "In conclusion"

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

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.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Rich Sutton, “AI Succession (slides)”, 2023-07-07.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (19 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.

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