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Omohundro's paper of 2008 argues that sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design will have drives, present unless explicitly counteracted, to improve themselves, protect their utility functions, protect themselves and acquire resources. Copy claim link
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Date 2008 · publication Records dated 2008 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A statement of the author's argument, not evidence about any built system; the paper holds that careful design can counteract the drives. Not evidence of coinage of the term.
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The Basic AI Drives ↗ Self-Aware Systems (author-hosted copy) · Publication date unknown
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Source excerpt “We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design. We call them drives because they are tendencies which will be present unless explicitly counteracted.” Location in source Abstract, PDF p. 1
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Source details and check notes 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). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Self-Aware Systems (author-hosted copy), “The Basic AI Drives”. 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 (32 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
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Source excerpt “Almost any goal can be better accomplished by having more of these resources.” Location in source Section 6, PDF p. 9
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Source details and check notes 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). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Self-Aware Systems (author-hosted copy), “The Basic AI Drives”. 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 (13 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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