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Russell's article of 8 October 2019 argues that those who hold the risk from AI to be negligible have not explained why superintelligent AI systems will necessarily remain under human control. Copy claim link
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Date 2019-10-08 · publication Records dated 2019 → Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Disputes the premise that a system can simply be switched off or kept subordinate, by arguing that a system pursuing any objective has reason to prevent being switched off. Scope and limits The article explicitly answers named texts holding the contrary (Pinker, Brooks, Kelly, Etzioni and others); it argues that the standard model of AI must be replaced, not that control is impossible.
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Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong ↗ IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org) · 2019-10-08
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Source excerpt “In summary, the “skeptics”—those who argue that the risk from AI is negligible—have failed to explain why superintelligent AI systems will necessarily remain under human control” Location in source Summary section
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Source details and check notes Authors Stuart Russell Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 44432d3c30826cf27e47a02b24bf2bb9afea8db05e619f33870d279f69c833f8). current IEEE Spectrum page dated 08 Oct 2019, based on a chapter of Human Compatible (Viking, 2019); printed in the October 2019 issue as "It’s Not Too Soon to Be Wary of AI", which was not compared. 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 Stuart Russell, “Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong”, 2019-10-08. 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 (26 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
Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong ↗ IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org) · 2019-10-08
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Source excerpt “We can no more “just switch it off” than we can beat AlphaGo (the world-champion Go-playing program) just by putting stones on the right squares.” Location in source Section on "just switch it off"
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Source details and check notes Authors Stuart Russell Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 44432d3c30826cf27e47a02b24bf2bb9afea8db05e619f33870d279f69c833f8). current IEEE Spectrum page dated 08 Oct 2019, based on a chapter of Human Compatible (Viking, 2019); printed in the October 2019 issue as "It’s Not Too Soon to Be Wary of AI", which was not compared. 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 Stuart Russell, “Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong”, 2019-10-08. 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 (25 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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