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Hawkins's essay of 2 March 2015 states that there is no existential threat for the coming decades and that machine intelligence does not represent a threat to humanity any more than computers do. Copy claim link
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Date 2015-03-02 · publication Records dated 2015 → Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Grounds its rejection of an existential threat in the claim that neocortex-based machines will lack desires of their own. Scope and limits The essay limits its claim to "the future we can see and control today" and the coming decades, and calls concern about irreversible steps towards extinction legitimate.
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The Terminator Is Not Coming. The Future Will Thank Us. ↗ Re/code, now on vox.com · 2015-03-02
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Source excerpt “There is no existential threat. This is the reality for the coming decades, and we can easily change direction should new existential threats appear.” Location in source Closing section
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Source details and check notes Authors Jeff Hawkins Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 0634b128cfb96deace5ea8b21b4d514dae5f0e7e492645c361593c651d54bb47). current vox.com page (Re/code archive), datePublished 2015-03-02 in the page metadata. 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 Jeff Hawkins, “The Terminator Is Not Coming. The Future Will Thank Us.”, 2015-03-02. 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 (24 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
The Terminator Is Not Coming. The Future Will Thank Us. ↗ Re/code, now on vox.com · 2015-03-02
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Source excerpt “Machine intelligence does not represent a threat to humanity any more than computers do.” Location in source Closing section
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-31
Source details and check notes Authors Jeff Hawkins Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 0634b128cfb96deace5ea8b21b4d514dae5f0e7e492645c361593c651d54bb47). current vox.com page (Re/code archive), datePublished 2015-03-02 in the page metadata. 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 Jeff Hawkins, “The Terminator Is Not Coming. The Future Will Thank Us.”, 2015-03-02. 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 (14 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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