Claim · 2016-06-25 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Crawford's essay of June 2016 states that discussion of artificial intelligence as an existential threat is a distraction from the real problems of artificial intelligence today, such as discrimination built into deployed systems.

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What it connects

Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem → articulates → Present harms deserve priority

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problemarticulates ↓Present harms deserve priority

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2016-06-25 · publication Records dated 2016 →
Role: Earliest located
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

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The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem

The New York Times · 2016-06-25

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Source excerpt

“this hand-wringing is a distraction from the very real problems with artificial intelligence today”

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Kate Crawford
Version: Read in the Internet Archive capture of 25 June 2016 by the cross-family check of 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 f3d1cf1dde038fba4e63d55323ddfd269b3ac2b70de18ad152252afd8cc71d73); the publisher's page refused direct retrieval (HTTP 403). The capture dates the essay 25 June 2016; the address gives 26 June 2016, the date of the print edition.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2016-06-25: Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem. Captured on the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2016-06-25. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.
Attribution: Kate Crawford, “Artificial Intelligence's White Guy Problem”, 2016-06-25.
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Check notes: Added at the admission of the risk-debate pack (research/risk-debate). The quotation (14 words) was read by the cross-family check of 2026-10-31 in the archive capture named in the source record; the Internet Archive refused connections at admission, so it was not matched again. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 proposed the record and read this passage. No human editorial review.

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Date. Dated 25 June 2016 on the capture of that day; the address and the print edition give 26 June 2016.

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