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Engines of Creation argues that redundancy, design diversity and mental parts that reject actions on ethical grounds can make AI systems reliable, and that safety does not require every AI system to be trustworthy if some are and help plan precautions for the rest. Copy claim link
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Date 1986 · publication Wording attested 1997-07-09. Wording checked in the Foresight Institute’s web edition (© 1986 K. Eric Drexler; published for the web by Russell Whitaker), whose earliest captures are of 1997-07-09; a reader’s message of October 1996 on the site shows the edition was online by then. Not compared with the 1986 printing. Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope of the passage Disputes that trustworthy advanced systems are infeasible. Engagement Engages a premise. Gives reasons against the premise that capable AI systems cannot be kept reliable or trustworthy: redundancy and design diversity, and trustworthy systems helping to plan precautions for the rest. Scope and limits A proposed approach, not proof that it works; it does not deny every possibility of losing control.
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Engines of Creation, chapter 11: Engines of Destruction (web edition) ↗ Foresight Institute (web edition of Engines of Creation) · 1986
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Source excerpt “AI systems with many parts will have room for redundancy and design diversity, making reliability possible.” Location in source Chapter 11, "Trustworthy Systems" (printed pp. 153–154 in the later electronic edition)
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Source details and check notes Authors K. Eric Drexler Version Web edition page as captured by the Internet Archive on 1997-07-09 (timestamp 19970709112434); it carries the notice "Copyright 1986, K. Eric Drexler". Retrieved 2026-10-06. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 1997-07-09: Engines of Creation, chapter 11: Engines of Destruction (web edition) ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 1997-07-09. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (1986), Foresight Institute web edition. Reuse All rights reserved, according to the page’s copyright notice.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the 1997 capture of chapter 11 on 2026-10-06. primary source Supports the claim
Engines of Creation, notes and references (web edition) ↗ Foresight Institute (web edition of Engines of Creation) · 1986
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Source excerpt “Safety does not require that all AI systems be made trustworthy, so long as some are trustworthy and help us plan precautions for the rest.” Location in source Notes for chapter 11, note "... AI systems can be made trustworthy ..."
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Source details and check notes Authors K. Eric Drexler Version Web edition page as captured by the Internet Archive on 1997-07-09 (timestamp 19970709104746); it carries the notice "Copyright 1986, K. Eric Drexler". Retrieved 2026-10-06. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 1997-07-09: Engines of Creation, notes and references (web edition) ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 1997-07-09. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (1986), Foresight Institute web edition. Reuse All rights reserved, according to the page’s copyright notice.. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the 1997 capture of the notes page. 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. Year of the book, as given by its copyright notice; an October 1986 review is recorded in Moravec’s bibliography.
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