Claim · 2019-10-08 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Russell's article of 8 October 2019 replies to Brooks, whom it names, quoting the sentence of Brooks's post of 7 September 2017 on a program smart enough to subvert human society.

One recorded claim. The claim panel gives its qualification, the source passages with their place in each source, and how it was checked.

What it connects

Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong → cites → The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI

Where it appears

No collection page holds this claim. It is listed with its records in the explorer.

Claim and evidence

Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrongcites ↓The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2019-10-08 · publication Records dated 2019 →

Scope and limitsA reply is not agreement; the record says only that the text answers the other.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong

IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org) · 2019-10-08

Cite the original source

Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“The most explicit critique of Bostrom’s orthogonality thesis comes from the noted roboticist Rodney Brooks”

Location in source Section on the orthogonality thesis

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Stuart Russell
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 44432d3c30826cf27e47a02b24bf2bb9afea8db05e619f33870d279f69c833f8). current IEEE Spectrum page dated 08 Oct 2019, based on a chapter of Human Compatible (Viking, 2019); printed in the October 2019 issue as "It’s Not Too Soon to Be Wary of AI", which was not 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: Stuart Russell, “Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong”, 2019-10-08.
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 (15 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.

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.

Relation. An explicit reference to a work. Citation alone is neither agreement nor causal influence.

Date. Date of publication, as the source gives it.

Record ID rd-reply-russell-2019-ieee-spectrum-to-brooks-2017-seven-deadly-sins