Claim · 2008 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Yudkowsky attributes the term “intelligence explosion”, for an AI making a large jump in intelligence after a threshold, to Good (1965).

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Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk → attributes to → Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Riskattributes to ↓Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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Date: 2008 · publication Records dated 2008 →
Kind of attribution: Attributes a term or concept to the work

Scope and limitsThe citing text's attribution of a term (MIRI reprint); not evidence that Good's scenario is the source of Yudkowsky's argument as a whole, nor that the scenario is likely.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (MIRI reprint)

Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2008

Archived copy, captured 2013-03-02: Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (MIRI reprint)

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Source excerpt

“One often encounters skepticism about this scenario—what Good (1965) called an “intelligence explosion”—because progress in Artificial Intelligence has the reputation of being very slow.”

Location in source PDF p. 19, §8 Rates of Intelligence Increase

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version: MIRI reprint, "This version contains minor changes", retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search; byte-identical to the capture of 2013-03-02.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2013-03-02: Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (MIRI reprint). An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2013-03-02. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk", in Global Catastrophic Risks (2008); MIRI reprint.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, key papers (research/key-papers). The quotation (24 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 B015) 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.

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