Claim · 2017-09-07 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Brooks's essay of September 2017 states that, if superintelligent devices are eventually built, they will evolve technologically over time in a world already changed and populated by many other intelligences, so that their existence will not come as a sudden surprise.

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What it connects

The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI → articulates → Takeoff will be gradual

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AIarticulates ↓Takeoff will be gradual

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Date: 2017-09-07 · publication Records dated 2017 →
Role: Earliest located
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsStated in the section 'Hollywood scenarios'; Brooks names no timescale beyond 'over time'. Yudkowsky's texts recorded on the overlapping dataset concept Y11 (from 2000) are contesting or context records only, so they do not precede this articulation.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI

Author's blog (rodneybrooks.com), essay in the series Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence · 2017-09-07

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Source excerpt

“We will not suddenly be surprised by the existence of such super intelligences. They will evolve technologically over time, and our world will be different, populated by many other intelligences, and we will have lots of experience already.”

Location in source Section 6, "Hollywood scenarios"

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Rodney Brooks
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 eeda8eb3461fe97e8c91422f74cccc25acd03e96100f646c952147b6c90600e0). Current blog page dated September 7, 2017 (text: "As I write these words on September 2nd, 2017"); retrieved 2026-10-29. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Rodney Brooks, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI”, 2017-09-07.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (38 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 52) answered the record’s question blind and agreed with its stance. No human editorial review.

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