Claim · 1986-03 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Schwartz’s report “The Limits of Artificial Intelligence” (March 1986) uses ‘superintelligences’ for artificial minds able to explore alternatives and act at a rate far exceeding human ability.

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

The Limits of Artificial Intelligence → uses the name →

Where it appears

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

Claim and evidence

The Limits of Artificial Intelligenceuses the name ↓

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1986-03 · event Records dated 1986 →

Scope and limitsEarliest located use by the recorded searches, found by the cross-family check (2026-10-30); not evidence of coinage. The plural noun meets the criterion. The text is read in OCR of a digitised copy, not in a page facsimile.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (Technical Report #212)

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (digitised copy in the Internet Archive) · 1986-03

Cite the original source

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

Source excerpt

“artificial superintelligences able to explore significant mathematical, scientific, or engineering alternatives at a rate far exceeding human ability, or to generate plans and take action on them with equally overwhelming speed.”

Location in source Section 7, Moral Limits, pp. 36–37

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Jacob T. Schwartz
Version: OCR text of a digitised library copy, retrieved directly at admission on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 9f93540f5ccac87796fb8bc172feada3243e9be1ce3b6a5a737c601a3c2fcd7e), the same bytes as the cross-family check’s retrieval of 2026-10-30. The cover reads Technical Report #212, March 1986. OCR text, not a page facsimile: characters can differ from the printed page.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Jacob T. Schwartz, “The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (Technical Report #212)”, 1986-03.
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: Added at the admission of the technical history pack. Located by the cross-family check (item 2) and matched again in a direct retrieval at admission on 2026-10-31, whose SHA-256 equals the check’s. The quotation (31 words) matched as stated. 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. A passage of the document uses a name for a family of methods or a term, in the sense the concept’s naming criterion describes or, where labelled, in another sense. The record documents the use; it is not evidence that the name began there, and it implies no influence on or from another text.

Date. Date on the report’s cover (Technical Report #212, March 1986).

Record ID th-term-si-schwartz-1986