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The essay by Hawking, Russell, Tegmark and Wilczek of 1 May 2014 states that success in creating AI could be the last event in human history unless the risks are avoided, and that little serious research is devoted to the issue. Copy claim link
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Date 2014-05-01 · publication Records dated 2014 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A short newspaper essay; it does not use the word "extinction" and gives no estimate. It records what the four authors wrote, not each author's later views.
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Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?' ↗ The Independent (online) · 2014-05-01
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Source excerpt “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks” Location in source Paragraphs 3–4
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Source details and check notes Authors Stephen Hawking; Stuart Russell; Max Tegmark; Frank Wilczek Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ce50f0b1dbd8d440c7b21fc49d050feb8d50e47a3a253475a76d2f5a978a831b). Current online article, dated Thursday 01 May 2014 21:30 BST on the page; no update note. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, “Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?'”, 2014-05-01. 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 (27 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
Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?' ↗ The Independent (online) · 2014-05-01
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Source excerpt “the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.” Location in source Paragraph 6
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Source details and check notes Authors Stephen Hawking; Stuart Russell; Max Tegmark; Frank Wilczek Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ce50f0b1dbd8d440c7b21fc49d050feb8d50e47a3a253475a76d2f5a978a831b). Current online article, dated Thursday 01 May 2014 21:30 BST on the page; no update note. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, “Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?'”, 2014-05-01. 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 (22 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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