Claim · 2015-09 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Nordhaus (2015) attributes the idea that superintelligent computers would be the last invention humans need make to Good (1965), which it then quotes.

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Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth → attributes to → Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growthattributes to ↓Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2015-09 · publication Records dated 2015 →
Kind of attribution: Attributes a term or concept to the work

Scope and limitsThe citing text's attribution while setting out the hypothesis it tests; not evidence that Nordhaus accepts the idea, which the paper examines empirically.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth

NBER Working Paper 21547 · 2015-09

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Source excerpt

“Superintelligent computers are the last invention humans would make, as described by the mathematician Irving Good (1965) as follows:”

Location in source PDF p. 8, §II Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity

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Source details and check notes

Authors: William D. Nordhaus
Version: Full text. Current copy retrieved directly on 2026-10-09; no archive capture (Wayback unreachable), so earlier bytes are not authenticated. SHA-256 cb481e5e99ef9bad8575d9150bcc8464eda4904722cc5048389ab6159858b062. Journal version not retrieved. Nordhaus, W. D. (2021). Are we approaching an economic singularity? Information technology and the future of economic growth. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13(1), 299–332. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20170105
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Accessed: 2026-10-09
Language: English (en)
Attribution: William D. Nordhaus, “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth”, NBER Working Paper 21547, 2015-09.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, key papers (research/key-papers). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (research/key-papers/verification.json). Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and line-break hyphens, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item B016) found the attribution at its locator and in the citing text’s reference entry. No human editorial review.

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Relation. A document expressly attributes an argument, concept, term, finding or approach to another work, in its own words; the kind of attribution is recorded. The record is the citing document’s claim. It is not evidence that the cited work originated the idea, that the attribution is accurate, or of influence beyond the passage. Citation alone is recorded as a citation.

Date. Date of the citing text as the dataset records it (September 2015).

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