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Brooks's Edge response of 2014 argues that worry about intentionally evil AI is mistaken because volitional, intentional AI is most likely centuries away, and that AI over the next decades will be useful tools. Copy claim link
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Date 2014-11 · publication Records dated 2014 → Wording attested 2014. The quoted wording is read in Brooks's Edge Reality Club response, which carries no date of its own; the conversation it answers is dated 14 November 2014. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Argues that intentional, malevolent AI is far off, not that sufficiently intelligent AI would be benevolent or would lack a drive to harm people. Scope and limits The passage concerns timescale and the absence of intent in current methods. Read in the Edge copy of the essay; its Robohub repost of 11 November 2014 is the other recorded expression.
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Artificial Intelligence Is A Tool Not A Threat (response by Rodney A. Brooks, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion) ↗ Edge.org, conversation page "The Myth of AI" (Jaron Lanier, dated 14 November 2014), Reality Club discussion · 2014-11
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Source excerpt “I think it is a mistake to be worrying about us developing malevolent AI anytime in the next few hundred years.” Location in source Reality Club response "Artificial Intelligence Is A Tool Not A Threat", para. 3
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Source details and check notes Authors Rodney Brooks Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6ea0800c969ae54c4fad372468aa5a9a557b4d25a081bee9b26d51048fd8d159). current Edge.org conversation page retrieved 2026-10-29 (the page states that the site is hosted by the Internet Archive); responses carry no individual dates. 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, “Artificial Intelligence Is A Tool Not A Threat (response by Rodney A. Brooks, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion)”, 2014-11. 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 (21 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 80) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Artificial Intelligence Is A Tool Not A Threat (response by Rodney A. Brooks, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion) ↗ Edge.org, conversation page "The Myth of AI" (Jaron Lanier, dated 14 November 2014), Reality Club discussion · 2014-11
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Source excerpt “If we are spectacularly lucky we’ll have AI over the next thirty years with the intentionality of a lizard, and robots using that AI will be useful tools.” Location in source Same response, final paragraphs
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Source details and check notes Authors Rodney Brooks Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6ea0800c969ae54c4fad372468aa5a9a557b4d25a081bee9b26d51048fd8d159). current Edge.org conversation page retrieved 2026-10-29 (the page states that the site is hosted by the Internet Archive); responses carry no individual dates. 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, “Artificial Intelligence Is A Tool Not A Threat (response by Rodney A. Brooks, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion)”, 2014-11. 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 (28 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 80) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. 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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