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Tipler's Edge response of 2015 states that AIs, not humans, will colonise the Moon or Mars, and that AIs will have the entire universe in which to expand. Copy claim link
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Date 2015 · publication Records dated 2015 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A short response; Tipler grounds it in the eventual destruction of the Earth by the Sun.
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AI's Will Save Us All ↗ Edge (edge.org), response to the 2015 Edge Question "What do you think about machines that think?" · 2015
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Source excerpt “The AI's, not humans, will colonize these planets instead, or perhaps, take the planets apart.” Location in source Second paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Frank Tipler Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 3a05c2dabfae4072ce8b8fc1cef12b43c43a3652aeb1bdd1dd821015e394896a). Current Edge response page (response-detail/26107) under "2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?". Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Frank Tipler, “AI's Will Save Us All”, 2015. 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 (15 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's Will Save Us All ↗ Edge (edge.org), response to the 2015 Edge Question "What do you think about machines that think?" · 2015
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Source excerpt “AI's will have the entire universe in which to expand.” Location in source Fourth paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Frank Tipler Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 3a05c2dabfae4072ce8b8fc1cef12b43c43a3652aeb1bdd1dd821015e394896a). Current Edge response page (response-detail/26107) under "2015 : WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?". Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Frank Tipler, “AI's Will Save Us All”, 2015. 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 (10 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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