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Hawkins's essay of 2 March 2015 argues that intelligent machines will be built on models of the neocortex, which is emotionless, rather than of the older brain parts that produce desires, and so will not have human-like desires to free themselves or to act without regard for people. Copy claim link
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Date 2015-03-02 · publication Records dated 2015 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A statement of the author's expectation for neocortex-based machines; the essay says that whether machines with human-like desires could or should be built are open questions.
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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 “The second misconception is that intelligent machines will have human-like desires, and would therefore devise ways to self-replicate, or free themselves from their human creators, or simply act based on their own desires and not care about us. This scenario isn’t going to happen.” Location in source Section on the second misconception
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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 (44 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 73) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. 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 “Intelligent machines will be based on models of the neocortex, not the rest of the brain.” Location in source Same 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 (16 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 73) 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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