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Shulman’s paper starts from the argument that human-level software would launch an extremely rapid technological transformation by designing its own successors, an "intelligence explosion" too fast for biological humans to supervise. Copy claim link
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Date 2009-07-02 · publication Wording attested Only in a later, undated copy. MIRI reprint marked "This version contains minor changes"; not compared with the conference version. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope of the passage Reported as what commentators have argued; the paper starts from it. Scope and limits The abstract attributes the argument to "a number of commentators"; the paper then discusses arms control.
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Arms Control and Intelligence Explosions (MIRI reprint) ↗ Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2009-07-02
Archived copy, captured 2013-08-17: Arms Control and Intelligence Explosions (MIRI reprint) ↗
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Source excerpt “such entities will launch an extremely rapid technological transformation as they design their own successors. The speed of such a “Singularity” or “intelligence explosion” would be so great that biological humans would lack time for extensive deliberation regarding or supervision of the process.” Location in source Abstract
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Source details and check notes Authors Carl Shulman Version MIRI reprint, "This version contains minor changes", retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2013-08-17: Arms Control and Intelligence Explosions (MIRI reprint) ↗ . Captured 1507 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2013-08-17. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Carl Shulman, "Arms Control and Intelligence Explosions" (ECAP 2009); MIRI reprint. 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 Checked against MIRI’s reprint on 2026-10-06. 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.
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Date. Presented at ECAP, 2–4 July 2009, according to the reprint’s citation line.
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