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The paper states that it identifies a number of “drives” that, it argues, will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design.

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The Basic AI Drives → states its contribution → The paper states that it identifies a number of “drives” that, it argues, will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design.

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The Basic AI Drivesstates its contribution ↓The paper states that it identifies a number of “drives” that, it argues, will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design.

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The Basic AI Drives

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“We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design.”

Location in source PDF p. 1, abstract

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Authors: Self-Aware Systems (author-hosted copy)
Version: Final PDF posted by the author (file ai_drives_final.pdf); the copy prints no date. Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 005df258c0b78ea69a89a1b0eb95b646f406b83c37e3a3b7c2b3a767a3ea8461).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
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