Claim · 2017-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Korinek and Stiglitz (2017) attribute the concept of “basic drives”, intermediate objectives instrumental for any final objective, to Omohundro (2008) and use it to set up their scenario of AI agents competing with humans for resources.

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment → attributes to → The Basic AI Drives

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemploymentattributes to ↓The Basic AI Drives

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Date: 2017-12 · publication Records dated 2017 →
Kind of attribution: Attributes a term or concept to the work

Scope and limitsThe citing text's attribution of a concept; not evidence that the concept is correct or that the citing authors' model derives from Omohundro (2008) beyond this passage.

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment

NBER Working Paper 24174 · 2017-12

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“it will act by pursuing intermediate objectives or “basic drives” that are instrumental for any final objective (Omohundro, 2008)”

Location in source PDF p. 36, section “Artificially Intelligent Agents and the Return of Malthus”, para. 1

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Authors: Anton Korinek; Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Language: English (en)
Attribution: Anton Korinek, Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment”, NBER Working Paper 24174, 2017-12.
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Date. Date of the citing text as the dataset records it (December 2017).

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