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Brooks's blog post of November 2014 argues that worry about malevolent AI rests on a misunderstanding of how far the field is from volitional machines, and calls worrying about intentionally evil AI fear mongering and a waste of time. Copy claim link
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Date 2014-11 · publication Records dated 2014 → Wording attested 2014-11-11. Wording read in the Robohub repost of that date; the original Rethink Robotics post was not retrieved. Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The argument concerns "malevolent" or "intentionally evil" AI and the time scale of human-level AI (the post says centuries); it does not address risk from systems that harm without intent. Read in a same-month repost, not in the original.
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Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat ↗ Robohub (robohub.org), reposting the Rethink Robotics blog · 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 Paragraph 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 5b5a58b8652dc2adb1af5f2999c3a3dfea023e8e79228efee821041f735eb339). Robohub repost dated 11 November 2014, which states that the article originally appeared on Rethink Robotics; the Rethink Robotics page could not be retrieved, so the wording is read in the repost. 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”, 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 68) answered the record’s question blind and agreed with its stance. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat ↗ Robohub (robohub.org), reposting the Rethink Robotics blog · 2014-11
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Source excerpt “Worrying about AI that will be intentionally evil to us is pure fear mongering. And an immense waste of time.” Location in source 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 5b5a58b8652dc2adb1af5f2999c3a3dfea023e8e79228efee821041f735eb339). Robohub repost dated 11 November 2014, which states that the article originally appeared on Rethink Robotics; the Rethink Robotics page could not be retrieved, so the wording is read in the repost. 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”, 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 (20 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 68) answered the record’s question blind and agreed with its stance. 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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