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Hanson's essay of 14 April 2023 argues that the organisations that supply AIs monitor and test them in great detail because that is cheap and they are liable for damages and embarrassments, and that law and competition push them to make their AIs behave in civil, lawful ways. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-04-14 · publication Records dated 2023 → Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Earliest located among this pack's records only: the dataset's economics collection (E04) records Hanson's blog posts of 2008 on the same concept, which are linked, not re-recorded. The essay also states that competition sometimes leads firms to cheat customers in ways they cannot see.
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What Are Reasonable AI Fears? ↗ Quillette (quillette.com) · 2023-04-14
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Source excerpt “These institutions usually monitor and test AIs in great detail, because that’s cheap and they are liable for damages and embarrassments caused by the AIs they produce.” Location in source Paragraph beginning "Furthermore, AIs today"
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 4b0575e01c7e9d20131e14264b49f5ecc3f7f2aff704c1eb9d16378c6a1debc5). Current page; no archive capture 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 Robin Hanson, “What Are Reasonable AI Fears?”, 2023-04-14. 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 (27 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 48) answered the record’s question blind and agreed with its stance. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
What Are Reasonable AI Fears? ↗ Quillette (quillette.com) · 2023-04-14
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Source excerpt “Many organizations supply many AIs and they are pushed by law and competition to get their AIs to behave in civil, lawful ways that give customers more of what they want compared to alternatives.” Location in source Same paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 4b0575e01c7e9d20131e14264b49f5ecc3f7f2aff704c1eb9d16378c6a1debc5). Current page; no archive capture 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 Robin Hanson, “What Are Reasonable AI Fears?”, 2023-04-14. 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 (34 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 48) 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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