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Good’s chapter calls the first ultraintelligent machine the last invention people need ever make, provided that the machine is "docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control". Copy claim link
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Date 1965 · publication Claimed date 1962-10. The chapter’s footnote on p. 31 names talks in October 1962 and January 1963, a first draft of April 1963 and a slightly emended version of May 1964. None was retrieved, so the wording is not dated to them. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope of the passage Control half, as a proviso. Scope and limits A proviso: the passage presupposes rather than asserts that control could be lost, and offers no means of meeting the condition. The next sentence says the point is made so seldom outside science fiction, a pointer to fiction the chapter does not name.
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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine ↗ Academic Press · 1965
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Paraphrase The benefit of the first ultraintelligent machine is conditional: it is the last invention needed only if the machine is "docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control". Good adds that this point is made "so seldom outside of science fiction".
Location in source Section 2, printed p. 33 (scan page 3), the sentence after the design-feedback argument
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Source details and check notes Authors I. J. Good Version Scanned reprint, Advances in Computers volume 6, pp. 31–88. Repository metadata identifies ©1965; the mirror filename says 1966. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-17 Language English (en) Attribution Academic Press, Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and minimal attributed excerpts only. Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the text layer on 2026-10-06; "docile" is Good’s word. 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 Advances in Computers, volume 6, as catalogued by Open Library; the current Crossref record gives 1966. The discrepancy is unresolved.
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