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Russell's Edge response of 2014 replies to Brooks's response in the same discussion, which it names, on the timescale of technological breakthroughs.

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Of Myths And Moonshine → cites → Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

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Of Myths And Moonshinecites ↓Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

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Date: 2014 · publication Records dated 2014 →

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Of Myths And Moonshine (response by Stuart Russell, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion)

Edge.org, conversation page "The Myth of AI" (Jaron Lanier, dated 14 November 2014), Reality Club discussion · 2014

Archived copy, captured 2014-12-06: Of Myths And Moonshine (response by Stuart Russell, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion)

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“may sometimes be measured not in centuries, as Rod Brooks suggests, but in hours.”

Location in source Reality Club response "Of Myths And Moonshine", para. 3

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Authors: Stuart Russell
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6ea0800c969ae54c4fad372468aa5a9a557b4d25a081bee9b26d51048fd8d159). current Edge.org conversation page retrieved 2026-10-29 (the page states that the site is hosted by the Internet Archive); responses carry no individual dates. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 found Russell's quoted passages absent from the captures of 18 and 21 November 2014 and present in the capture of 6 December 2014.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2014-12-06: Of Myths And Moonshine (response by Stuart Russell, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion). An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2014-12-06. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-29.
Attribution: Stuart Russell, “Of Myths And Moonshine (response by Stuart Russell, in "The Myth of AI", Reality Club discussion)”, 2014.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (14 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.

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