Claim · 1973 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The preface by the Science Research Council's chairman states that Lighthill was asked to make a personal review of artificial intelligence, and that the Council discussed his report in September 1972 and decided to publish it together with alternative points of view.

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Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey → states provision → Science Research Council asked Lighthill for a personal review; discussed it in September 1972 and decided to publish it with alternative views

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Artificial Intelligence: A General Surveystates provision ↓Science Research Council asked Lighthill for a personal review; discussed it in September 1972 and decided to publish it with alternative views

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Provision: Statement · provision ID tl-lighthill-1972-src
Date: 1973 · publication Records dated 1973 →

Scope and limitsStatement of the commissioning body's chairman (B. H. Flowers) in the published paper symposium.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Lighthill Report, Preface (B. H. Flowers)

Science Research Council (publisher); transcription hosted by chilton-computing.org.uk · 1973

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Source excerpt

“I therefore asked Sir James Lighthill, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, to make a personal review of the subject.”

Location in source Preface

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: B. H. Flowers
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 54d2a0c8b7400efbd66b1615e1c98d12eff48c0bed4ee65a013b7469a157805e). HTML transcription of the preface to the paper symposium
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: B. H. Flowers, “Lighthill Report, Preface (B. H. Flowers)”, 1973.
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, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (25 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 118) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the date is labelled as stated in the later preface was applied at admission. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Lighthill Report, Preface (B. H. Flowers)

Science Research Council (publisher); transcription hosted by chilton-computing.org.uk · 1973

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Source excerpt

“The Science Research Council discussed Sir James's report in September 1972, and decided to publish it, together with some alternative points of view.”

Location in source Preface

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: B. H. Flowers
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 54d2a0c8b7400efbd66b1615e1c98d12eff48c0bed4ee65a013b7469a157805e). HTML transcription of the preface to the paper symposium
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: B. H. Flowers, “Lighthill Report, Preface (B. H. Flowers)”, 1973.
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, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (23 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 118) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the date is labelled as stated in the later preface was applied at admission. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Dated by the text that states it, 1973. The statement reports September 1972: Month stated in the published symposium’s preface (1973), a later account by the Council’s chairman; not attested by contemporaneous minutes read here.

Record ID th-tl-lighthill-1972-src