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

Russell's article of 8 October 2019 replies to Pinker, whom it names, quoting wording that appears in Pinker's Edge response of 2015.

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Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong → cites → Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating

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Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrongcites ↓Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating

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

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

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

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“Pinker also argues that problematic AI behaviors arise from putting in specific kinds of objectives; if these are left out, everything will be fine”

Location in source Section replying to Pinker and LeCun

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

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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.
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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.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (24 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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