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Brooks's post of 7 September 2017 argues that no real program could be smart enough to subvert human society to achieve goals set for it by humans without understanding how it was causing problems for those humans. Copy claim link
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Date 2017-09-07 · publication Records dated 2017 → Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element It argues that such a program would understand the harm it caused to people; it does not state that intelligence brings goals compatible with human interests, or that intelligence and final goals cannot vary independently. Scope and limits Brooks answers a quoted passage whose author he leaves unnamed; the post's argument concerns understanding of human goals, not whether such understanding brings concern for them.
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI ↗ Author's blog (rodneybrooks.com), essay in the series Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence · 2017-09-07
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Source excerpt “We would never get to a situation in any version of the real world where such a program could exist.” Location in source Section C, Misaligned Values
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Source details and check notes Authors Rodney Brooks Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 eeda8eb3461fe97e8c91422f74cccc25acd03e96100f646c952147b6c90600e0). Current blog page dated September 7, 2017 (text: "As I write these words on September 2nd, 2017"); retrieved 2026-10-29. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Rodney Brooks, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI”, 2017-09-07. 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 (20 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 96) re-read the record’s source; its findings were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI ↗ Author's blog (rodneybrooks.com), essay in the series Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence · 2017-09-07
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Source excerpt “One smart enough that it would be able to invent ways to subvert human society to achieve goals set for it by humans, without understanding the ways in which it was causing problems for those same humans.” Location in source Section C, Misaligned Values (next sentence)
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Source details and check notes Authors Rodney Brooks Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 eeda8eb3461fe97e8c91422f74cccc25acd03e96100f646c952147b6c90600e0). Current blog page dated September 7, 2017 (text: "As I write these words on September 2nd, 2017"); retrieved 2026-10-29. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Rodney Brooks, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI”, 2017-09-07. 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 (37 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 96) re-read the record’s source; its findings were applied at admission. 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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