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“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y19. In a general-audience article he repeats the formula after saying that the likely outcome of current methods is an AI that does not care for humans. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-03-29 · publication Role Contesting, Later restatement Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Under the message-level rule, the passage, read with the paragraph, message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that an AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Scope and limits Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. TIME, March 2023 (the brief's preferred expression over the 2023-04-08 LessWrong crosspost). He is quoting his own 2008 line in ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’.
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Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down ↗ TIME · 2023-03-29
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Source excerpt “Absent that caring, we get “the AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, and you are made of atoms it can use for something else.” Location in source TIME, 'Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough', paragraph beginning 'Absent that caring'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version TIME, retrieved 2026-10-06 (SHA-256 4a8c77e15456ca68b530df8bd825296e3923f621b0c0b09dacce312ae94182d6). Page metadata datePublished 2023-03-29T22:01:58Z. The page title currently reads "The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down"; the headline is the one crossposted to LessWrong on 2023-04-08. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down”, TIME, 2023-03-29. 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 Candidate pack passage T19-d. The quotation (28 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 4a8c77e15456ca68b530df8bd825296e3923f621b0c0b09dacce312ae94182d6) when checked 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. Page metadata datePublished 2023-03-29T22:01:58Z. The page title currently reads "The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down"; the headline is the one crossposted to LessWrong on 2023-04-08.
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