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Narayanan and Kapoor's essay of April 2025 states that the authors reject 'fast takeoff' scenarios and holds that a gradual increase in automation of AI development is more likely than a discontinuous moment of recursive self-improvement. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-04-15 · publication Records dated 2025 → Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. It disputes the premise that recursive self-improvement would arrive as a discontinuous moment, given that AI development already relies on AI. Scope and limits The essay states a worldview and says so; its argument is mainly about the speed of adoption and diffusion, with a separate argument about the speed of AI methods.
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AI as Normal Technology ↗ Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (knightcolumbia.org) · 2025-04-15
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Source excerpt “Since we reject “fast takeoff” scenarios, we do not see it as necessary or useful to envision a world further ahead than we have attempted to.” Location in source Introduction, paragraph on the scope of the essay
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Source details and check notes Authors Arvind Narayanan; Sayash Kapoor Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6122c2bd36f2b2e229e352c82f61ae0d93625a77888af892d9409d91b9ad1a16). Current web essay dated April 15, 2025. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor, “AI as Normal Technology”, 2025-04-15. 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, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (26 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. 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 as Normal Technology ↗ Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (knightcolumbia.org) · 2025-04-15
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Source excerpt “But note that AI development already relies heavily on AI. It is more likely that we will continue to see a gradual increase in the role of automation in AI development than a singular, discontinuous moment when recursive self-improvement is achieved.” Location in source Part I, section "The External world puts a speed limit on AI innovation", paragraph on AI-conducted AI research
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Source details and check notes Authors Arvind Narayanan; Sayash Kapoor Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6122c2bd36f2b2e229e352c82f61ae0d93625a77888af892d9409d91b9ad1a16). Current web essay dated April 15, 2025. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor, “AI as Normal Technology”, 2025-04-15. 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, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (41 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. 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. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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