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The indexed abstract of Samuel’s 1960 reply to Wiener denies that the machine is a threat to humanity, says it has no will of its own, and describes its conclusions as the logical consequences of its inputs. Copy claim link
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Date 1960-09-16 · publication Wording attested Only in a later, undated copy. The abstract as indexed by PubMed, retrieved 2026-10-06. The printed pages were not retrieved, and who wrote the abstract is not established. Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope of the passage The abstract disputes the threat and will premise of the control half. Engagement Engages a premise. Gives a reason against the premise that the machine could escape human control: it has no will of its own and its conclusions only follow from its input. Scope and limits Bounded to the abstract: whether it reproduces Samuel’s words or an editorial summary is not established, and the article body was not read. The statement that conclusions follow from the input does not engage Wiener’s specification half and is compatible with it.
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Some moral and technical consequences of automation—a refutation (PubMed record 17797013) ↗ PubMed (National Library of Medicine) · 1960-09-16
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Paraphrase The indexed abstract denies that the machine threatens humanity, says it has no will, and describes its conclusions as mechanistic consequences of its inputs.
Location in source NCBI efetch XML, Article/Abstract/AbstractText (two sentences)
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Source details and check notes Authors A. L. Samuel Version NCBI efetch XML for PMID 17797013, Article/Abstract/AbstractText, retrieved 2026-10-06 (hash matched the pre-1996 candidate search). The article body was not available. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution A. L. Samuel, Science 132 (1960), 741–742, abstract as indexed by PubMed. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the abstract’s author is not established. Phrases in quotation marks inside a paraphrase identify the source's wording. Check notes Re-retrieved 2026-10-06; hash matched the pre-1996 candidate search. Recorded as a secondary source because the abstract’s authorship is not established. 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.
Relation. A passage of the document disputes the proposition or a premise it depends on. The record documents the text’s position, not who is right.
Date. Issue date in the PubMed record (PMID 17797013).
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