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Creating Friendly AI’s glossary defines a hard takeoff as the Singularity scenario in which a mind goes from prehuman or human-equivalent intelligence to strong transhumanity or superintelligence over days or hours. Copy claim link
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Date 2001-06-15 · publication Wording attested 2001-06-17. The quoted wording is that of the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-17; earlier version-history dates do not authenticate it. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits A definition; the report’s design table pairs "Hard takeoff; weeks or hours" with Friendly AI as a conservative assumption.
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Creating Friendly AI 1.0, glossary (2001 HTML edition) ↗ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence · 2001-06-15
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Source excerpt “The Singularity scenario in which a mind makes the transition from prehuman or human-equivalent intelligence to strong transhumanity or superintelligence over the course of days or hours.” Location in source Glossary, entry "hard takeoff" (info/glossary.html in the 2001 HTML edition; reprint PDF p. 255)
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Raw Internet Archive capture of 2001-06-17, retrieved 2026-10-06; MIRI’s reprint carries the same definition with changed cross-references. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2001-06-17: Creating Friendly AI 1.0, glossary (2001 HTML edition) ↗ . Captured 2 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-06-17. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2001), glossary. 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 the 2001-06-17 capture 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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