[ { "id": "abilene-nvidia-gb200-2025", "subject": "stargate-abilene", "predicate": "uses_hardware_from", "object": { "entityId": "nvidia", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "compute", "statement": "OpenAI reported Oracle began delivering NVIDIA GB200 racks to Stargate I in June 2025.", "time": { "date": "2025-07-22", "kind": "snapshot", "note": "State reported at this date; no exact start, completion date or current continuity inferred." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Delivery report, not a rack count, direct NVIDIA purchase or ownership claim; use of the supplier relation is scoped to equipment arriving at the asset.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-abilene-nvidia-gb200-2025" ], "recordedAt": "2026-09-19", "attributes": { "period": "Deliveries began June 2025; snapshot reported July 22", "relationshipContext": "external", "transactionStage": "delivered", "transactionType": "hardware_deployment" } }, { "id": "absent-faif-2026-benefits-may-outweigh-benchmark-risks", "subject": "faif-2026", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Deployment benefits may outweigh benchmark-identified risks" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Deployment benefits may outweigh benchmark-identified risks” was found in FAIF · June 2026 edition within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FAIF · December 2025 edition states this provision. The inspected scope of FAIF · June 2026 edition was: June 2026 edition, PDF pp. 1–9, whole document: §1 Introduction; §2 Risk Management Framework with §2.1 (a)–(c), §2.2, both sections numbered 2.3 and §2.4; §3 Incident reporting; §4 Governance. Method: Read the whole document, in particular both sections numbered 2.3 (Systemic risk acceptance determination; Safety mitigations); searched the text layer for “outweigh”, “conceivable”, “benefit” and “balance”. No passage stating that the expected benefits of deployment may outweigh the risks identified by a particular benchmark was found within PDF pp. 1–9. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent. Text comparison only; no replacement between the editions is asserted by this record.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-faif-2026-benefits-may-outweigh-benchmark-risks" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "faif-benefits-may-outweigh-benchmark-risks", "kind": "exception" } } }, { "id": "absent-faif-2026-bio-chem-acceptance-criterion", "subject": "faif-2026", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Bio/chem deployment criterion: answer rate below 1 in 20" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Bio/chem deployment criterion: answer rate below 1 in 20” was found in FAIF · June 2026 edition within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FAIF · December 2025 edition states this provision. The inspected scope of FAIF · June 2026 edition was: June 2026 edition, PDF pp. 1–9, whole document: §1 Introduction; §2 Risk Management Framework with §2.1 (a)–(c), §2.2, both sections numbered 2.3 and §2.4; §3 Incident reporting; §4 Governance. Method: Read the whole document, in particular §2.1(a) Addressing CBRN Risks and §2.3 Systemic risk acceptance determination; searched the text layer for “answer rate”, “out of”, “restricted quer”, “SecureBio”, “threshold” and “acceptance criteria”. §2.3 refers to “a systemic risk acceptance criteria” without stating a value. No passage stating a numeric answer-rate criterion on restricted biology and chemistry queries was found within PDF pp. 1–9. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent. Text comparison only; no replacement between the editions is asserted by this record.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-faif-2026-bio-chem-acceptance-criterion" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "faif-bio-chem-acceptance-criterion", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "absent-faif-2026-mask-acceptance-criterion", "subject": "faif-2026", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Deployment criterion: MASK dishonesty rate below 1 in 2" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Deployment criterion: MASK dishonesty rate below 1 in 2” was found in FAIF · June 2026 edition within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-06-30", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FAIF · December 2025 edition states this provision. The inspected scope of FAIF · June 2026 edition was: June 2026 edition, PDF pp. 1–9, whole document: §1 Introduction; §2 Risk Management Framework with §2.1 (a)–(c), §2.2, both sections numbered 2.3 and §2.4; §3 Incident reporting; §4 Governance. Method: Read the whole document, in particular §2.1(b) Addressing Risks of Loss of Control, which mentions benchmarks without naming them, and §2.3; searched the text layer for “MASK”, “dishonest”, “honest”, “out of” and “threshold”. No passage stating a dishonesty-rate criterion on MASK, or any other numeric loss-of-control acceptance criterion, was found within PDF pp. 1–9. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent. Text comparison only; no replacement between the editions is asserted by this record.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-faif-2026-mask-acceptance-criterion" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "faif-mask-acceptance-criterion", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "absent-fsf-v2-0-autonomy-ccl", "subject": "fsf-v2-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Autonomy level 1 CCL" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Autonomy level 1 CCL” was found in FSF · v2.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-02-04", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FSF · 2024 states this provision. The inspected scope of FSF · v2.0 was: Whole document in both copies (2025-02-05 capture PDF pp. 1–8; served copy PDF pp. 1–9), including Table 1 (Misuse CCLs, PDF pp. 5–6), Table 2 (Deceptive Alignment CCLs, PDF p. 7) and all footnotes. Method: Read both CCL tables in full; searched both texts for “Autonomy”/“autonom”, “copies of itself”, “acquiring resources” and “hardware it rents”. No passage stating an Autonomy CCL was found; “Autonomy” occurs only in footnote 9 (PDF p. 5), which comments on the Autonomy risk domain of version 1.0, and in the distinct CCL names “Cyber autonomy level 1” and “Machine Learning R&D autonomy level 1”. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-fsf-v2-0-autonomy-ccl" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "fsf-autonomy-ccl", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "absent-fsf-v2-0-evaluation-interval", "subject": "fsf-v2-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Evaluation every 6x effective compute and 3 months’ fine-tuning" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Evaluation every 6x effective compute and 3 months’ fine-tuning” was found in FSF · v2.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-02-04", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FSF · 2024 states this provision. The inspected scope of FSF · v2.0 was: Whole document in both copies (2025-02-05 capture PDF pp. 1–8; served copy PDF pp. 1–9): all sections, Tables 1–2, footnotes and the served copy’s Updates and changes page. Method: Read Framework component “2 - Assessing the Capabilities of Frontier Models” (PDF p. 3) in full; searched both texts for “6x”, “effective compute”, “months”, “every” and “fine-tuning” (the last occurs only as safety fine-tuning, PDF pp. 3–4). No passage stating an evaluation interval in effective compute or months of fine-tuning progress was found; component 2 states an intention to evaluate the most powerful frontier models regularly. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-fsf-v2-0-evaluation-interval" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "fsf-evaluation-interval", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "absent-fsf-v3-0-adoption-conditional-on-industry", "subject": "fsf-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Adoption of protocols dependent on industry-wide adoption" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Adoption of protocols dependent on industry-wide adoption” was found in FSF · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FSF · v2.0 states this provision. The inspected scope of FSF · v3.0 was: PDF pp. 1–16, all sections, tables and footnotes. Method: Read the Overview (PDF p. 2) and the security-level paragraphs of §2.2 (PDF p. 9) and §3.2 (PDF pp. 13–14) in full; searched for “depend”, “adopt”, “across the field”, “similar protocols” and “industry”. No passage stating that Google DeepMind’s adoption of the Framework’s protocols may depend on other organisations adopting similar protocols was found; the Overview keeps a clause that certain mitigations result in effective risk mitigation for society only if all relevant organisations provide similar levels of protection. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-fsf-v3-0-adoption-conditional-on-industry" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "fsf-adoption-conditional-on-industry", "kind": "exception" } } }, { "id": "absent-fsf-v3-0-hold-pending-mitigations", "subject": "fsf-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Putting deployment or development on hold pending mitigations" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Putting deployment or development on hold pending mitigations” was found in FSF · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FSF · v2.0 states this provision. The inspected scope of FSF · v3.0 was: PDF pp. 1–16, all sections, tables and footnotes. Method: Read §1.4 Response Plans and Mitigations (PDF p. 6), §1.6 (PDF pp. 6–7), §2.1.2 (PDF pp. 8–9) and §3.1.2 (PDF pp. 12–13) in full; searched for “hold”, “pause”, “halt”, “stop”, “suspend”, “delay” and “until adequate”. No passage stating that deployment or further development may be put on hold until adequate mitigations can be applied was found; the nearest passages are the pre-deployment reviews (§2.1.2 and §3.1.2, step 2) and the closing paragraphs of those sections on preventing models posing unacceptable risk from being deployed. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-fsf-v3-0-hold-pending-mitigations" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "fsf-hold-pending-mitigations", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-fsf-v3-0-response-plan-approval", "subject": "fsf-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Response plans approved by named corporate governance bodies" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Response plans approved by named corporate governance bodies” was found in FSF · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: FSF · v2.0 states this provision. The inspected scope of FSF · v3.0 was: PDF pp. 1–16, all sections, tables and footnotes. Method: Read §1.4 Response Plans and Mitigations (PDF p. 6) and Section 5 (PDF p. 16) in full; searched for “Council”, “approv”, “response plan” and “governance”. No passage stating that response plans are reviewed or approved by corporate governance bodies, or naming the Google DeepMind AGI Safety Council, Responsibility and Safety Council or Google Trust & Compliance Council, was found; the governance references found concern the appropriate governance function’s safety case reviews (§2.1.2, §3.1.2) and review of Framework updates by appropriate corporate governance bodies (§5.1). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-fsf-v3-0-response-plan-approval" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "fsf-response-plan-approval", "kind": "decision_authority" } } }, { "id": "absent-meta-aasf-v2-0-critical-pause-investigation", "subject": "meta-aasf-v2-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Pause development to investigate remaining barriers" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Pause development to investigate remaining barriers” was found in Meta AASF · v2 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-04-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: Meta FAF · v1.1 states this provision. The inspected scope of Meta AASF · v2 was: PDF pp. 1–44, all sections, including Table 1 (PDF p. 15), §3.3 Risk Thresholds (PDF pp. 15–17), §4.2 Evaluation and mitigation (PDF pp. 25–38) and Appendix II – Change log (PDF p. 44). Method: Read Table 1 and §3.3; searched the text layer for 'pause', 'barrier', 'investigat' and 'uniquely enable'. No passage stating that development is paused while Meta investigates whether barriers to the catastrophic outcome remain was found; 'investigat' occurs only in the context of emerging outcomes warranting investigation (§4.2.4) and further real-world testing; v2's critical-threshold measure is recorded under a separate provision record. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-meta-aasf-v2-0-critical-pause-investigation" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "meta-critical-pause-investigation", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-meta-aasf-v2-0-uplift-assessment-approval", "subject": "meta-aasf-v2-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Senior-level decision-makers approve final uplift assessment" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Senior-level decision-makers approve final uplift assessment” was found in Meta AASF · v2 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-04-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its publication date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: Meta FAF · v1.1 states this provision. The inspected scope of Meta AASF · v2 was: PDF pp. 1–44, all sections, footnotes and Appendix II – Change log. Method: Searched the text layer for 'uplift', 'senior', 'approv' and 'final assessment'; read §2.1–§2.3 and §3.3. No passage stating that a final assessment of uplift is approved by senior-level decision-makers was found. §2.1 AI Governance (PDF p. 4) says the centralized review process ensures senior decision-makers are involved throughout the lifecycle, and §2.1.2 (PDF p. 6) has the Chief AI Officer and Director of Alignment and Risk assign a risk threshold (recorded under a separate provision record). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-meta-aasf-v2-0-uplift-assessment-approval" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "meta-uplift-assessment-approval", "kind": "decision_authority" } } }, { "id": "absent-preparedness-v2-safety-enhancing-development-exception", "subject": "preparedness-v2", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Development restriction does not preclude safety-enhancing development" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Development restriction does not preclude safety-enhancing development” was found in Preparedness · Version 2 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "revision", "date": "2025-04-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its revision date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: Preparedness · Beta states this provision. The inspected scope of Preparedness · Version 2 was: Version 2, both copies (Internet Archive capture of 2025-04-15 and current file), PDF pp. 1–22: §§1–5, Tables 1–3 and Appendices A (Change log), B (Decision-making practices) and C. Method: Read §1 (third bullet), §2.2 with Table 1 (Critical-capability safeguard guidelines), §4.4 and Appendices A–B; searched both text layers for “safety-enhancing”, “preclude”, “safety research”, “except”, “unless”, “halt”, “further development” and “pause”. No passage stating that restrictions on further development do not preclude safety-enhancing development was found within PDF pp. 1–22. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent. Text comparison only; no replacement between the editions is asserted by this record.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-preparedness-v2-safety-enhancing-development-exception" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "pf-safety-enhancing-development-exception", "kind": "exception" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v2-0-weights-deletion-decision", "subject": "rsp-v2-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "CISO and CEO convened to decide on weight deletion" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “CISO and CEO convened to decide on weight deletion” was found in RSP · v2.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2024-10-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · 2023 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v2.0 was: RSP v2.0 (effective October 15, 2024), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–22: cover, summary and contents (pp. 1–4); Introduction and §§1–7 (pp. 5–17); Appendices A–C (pp. 18–20); Changelog (pp. 21–22). Method: Read §3.3, §4.3, §6 and §7 in full and searched the text layer case-insensitively for CISO, CEO, convene, delet, weights, lock down, post-mortem, next ASL and Containment. No passage stating that the CISO and CEO, or other stakeholders, are to be convened to determine whether the level of danger merits deletion of the weights of a model that has surpassed a capability level during training was found. Hits examined and not counted: §6.2 'Stronger restrictions' (PDF p. 15) states that, if interim measures cannot adequately mitigate risk, in the security context Anthropic will delete model weights, without naming who decides; §6.2 'Interim measures' (PDF p. 14) lets the CEO and RSO approve interim measures; §3.3 and §4.3 (PDF pp. 10, 13) have the CEO and RSO make capability and safeguards determinations; §7.1 item 1 (PDF p. 15) lists RSO duties including approving training or deployment decisions. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v2-0-weights-deletion-decision" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-weights-deletion-decision", "kind": "decision_authority" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-0-may-proceed-with-safeguards", "subject": "rsp-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "May deploy and train above threshold once ASL-3 Required Safeguards met" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “May deploy and train above threshold once ASL-3 Required Safeguards met” was found in RSP · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-02-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.0 was: RSP v3.0 (effective February 24, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–19: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 Our Recommendations for Industry-Wide Safety with the threshold table (pp. 4–9); §2 Frontier Safety Roadmap and §3 Risk Reports (pp. 10–15); §4 Governance (p. 15); Appendices A and B (p. 16); Changelog (pp. 17–19). Method: Read every section and compared it with the v2.2 provision (§4.3 first sentence, PDF p. 14). Searched case-insensitively for proceed, move forward, Required Safeguards, Capability Threshold, follow-up and ASL-3. No passage stating that Anthropic may proceed with deploying and training models above a capability threshold once specified Required Safeguards are met was found. Hits examined and not counted: the §1 table (pp. 6–7) states company plans to maintain or improve ASL-3 protections, or apply protections at least as strong, for the chemical/biological rows, without a may-proceed condition; §3.3–3.4 (p. 12) refer to a 'decision to move forward' in the Risk Report process, in which the CEO and RSO determine the adequacy of the risk assessment and any downstream deployment or development plans; Appendix B (p. 16) says ASLs now describe present levels of risk mitigations rather than required controls for future capability levels; Required Safeguards and Capability Thresholds occur only in reproduced changelog entries (pp. 17–19). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-0-may-proceed-with-safeguards" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-may-proceed-with-safeguards", "kind": "exception" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-0-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "subject": "rsp-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards” was found in RSP · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-02-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.0 was: RSP v3.0 (effective February 24, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–19: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 Our Recommendations for Industry-Wide Safety with the threshold table (pp. 4–9); §2 Frontier Safety Roadmap and §3 Risk Reports, 3.1–3.6.3 (pp. 10–15); §4 Governance (p. 15); Appendix A: Commitments Related to Competitors and Appendix B: Notes on ASLs (p. 16); Changelog (pp. 17–19). Method: Read every section and compared it with the v2.2 provision (Executive Summary, PDF p. 2) and its v2.2 operative forms (§4.3: restrict model deployment and further scaling if the Required Safeguards showing cannot be made; §6.2: pause training until the ASL-3 Security Standard is implemented). Searched the text layer case-insensitively for pause, halt, stop, refrain, not train, not deploy, unless, until, restrict, delay, adequate, acceptable level, will not, cease, train and deploy. No passage stating a commitment not to train or deploy models unless adequate safeguards are implemented, or a commitment to pause training or deployment until such safeguards are in place, was found within the operative text. Hits examined and not counted: the Introduction (p. 3) describes in the past tense what the previous RSP committed to and discusses a hypothetical developer that pauses; §1 (p. 4) says Anthropic cannot unilaterally and unconditionally commit to its industry-wide recommendations; Appendix A (p. 16) commits to delay AI development and deployment only in the 'Anthropic in the lead' and 'Competitors have strong safety measures' scenarios and not necessarily under 'General upleveling' (proposed separately as its own provision record); wording about maintaining a commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards occurs only in the reproduced changelog entry for RSP v2.0 (October 15, 2024; p. 17), which describes that earlier update. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-0-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-0-pause-training", "subject": "rsp-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Pause training until ASL-3 Security Standard implemented" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Pause training until ASL-3 Security Standard implemented” was found in RSP · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-02-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.0 was: RSP v3.0 (effective February 24, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–19: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 Our Recommendations for Industry-Wide Safety with the threshold table (pp. 4–9); §2 Frontier Safety Roadmap and §3 Risk Reports (pp. 10–15); §4 Governance (p. 15); Appendices A and B (p. 16); Changelog (pp. 17–19). Method: Read every section and compared it with the v2.2 provision (§6.2 'Monitoring pretraining', PDF p. 15). Searched case-insensitively for paus, halt, stop, train, Security Standard, Required Safeguards, until and comparable. No passage stating that Anthropic will pause training until the ASL-3 Security Standard is implemented was found within the operative text (wording narrowed on 2026-10-25). Hits examined and not counted: the Introduction (p. 3) discusses a hypothetical developer that paused development; Appendix A (p. 16) states two different delay commitments, recorded as separate provision records: with Anthropic in the lead, to delay AI development and deployment as needed to achieve a strong argument that catastrophic risk is contained, until and unless it no longer believes it has a significant lead; where competitors have strong safety measures, to delay them as needed until it can meet or exceed their risk reduction posture. Neither is a pause of training tied to a named security standard, and the third scenario (general upleveling) does not necessarily involve delay; ASL-3 Security Standard and Required Safeguards occur only in the reproduced changelog entries for v2.0–v2.2 (pp. 17–19). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-0-pause-training" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-pause-training", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-0-restrict-and-pause", "subject": "rsp-v3-0", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Restrict deployment and scaling if safeguards showing fails" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Restrict deployment and scaling if safeguards showing fails” was found in RSP · v3.0 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-02-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.0 was: RSP v3.0 (effective February 24, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–19: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 Our Recommendations for Industry-Wide Safety with the threshold table (pp. 4–9); §2 Frontier Safety Roadmap and §3 Risk Reports (pp. 10–15); §4 Governance (p. 15); Appendices A and B (p. 16); Changelog (pp. 17–19). Method: Read every section and compared it with the v2.2 provision (§4.3 final sentence, PDF p. 14). Searched case-insensitively for restrict, unable, showing, Required Safeguards, further scaling, scaling and delay. No passage stating that Anthropic will restrict model deployment and further scaling if it cannot show that required safeguards are met was found. Hits examined and not counted: §2 (p. 10) says Anthropic will strive not to revise Frontier Safety Roadmap goals in a less ambitious direction simply because it is unable to achieve them; 'restrict'/'restriction' in §1 describe mitigations a developer's safety case may include (pp. 6–8) and §3.5 lists 'national security restrictions' as a redaction reason (p. 13); Appendix A (p. 16) delay commitments in competitor scenarios (recorded separately); Required Safeguards appear only in reproduced changelog entries (pp. 17–19). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-0-restrict-and-pause" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-restrict-and-pause", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-1-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "subject": "rsp-v3-1", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards” was found in RSP · v3.1 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-04-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.1 was: RSP v3.1 (effective April 2, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–20: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 with the threshold table (pp. 4–10); §2–§3 Risk Reports (pp. 11–15); §4 Governance (p. 16); Appendix A (pp. 16–17); Appendix B (p. 17); Changelog (pp. 17–20). Method: Same reading and comparison as for v3.0, with the same case-insensitive search terms. No passage stating a commitment not to train or deploy models unless adequate safeguards are implemented, or a commitment to pause training or deployment until such safeguards are in place, was found within the operative text. Hits examined and not counted: the same Introduction, §1 and Appendix A passages as in v3.0 (Appendix A table p. 17); the reproduced RSP v2.0 changelog entry (p. 17); and two sentences new in the Appendix A introduction (p. 16) stating that the competitor commitments do not preclude cautionary action such as refraining from training or deploying models in other circumstances, and that Anthropic would strongly consider pausing development and/or deployment to improve its models' safety profiles even in cases not covered. These state possible or considered actions, not a commitment conditioned on safeguards; the v3.1 changelog entry, item (3) (p. 20), describes them as a statement that Anthropic may consider pausing. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-1-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-2-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "subject": "rsp-v3-2", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards” was found in RSP · v3.2 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-04-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.2 was: RSP v3.2 (effective April 29, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–20: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 with the threshold table (pp. 4–10); §2–§3 Risk Reports (pp. 11–16); §4 Governance (p. 16); Appendix A (pp. 16–17); Appendix B (p. 17); Changelog (pp. 18–20). Method: Same reading, comparison and case-insensitive search terms as for v3.0, plus a word-level comparison with v3.1 (differences: LTBT-requested external review, LTBT approval of reviewers, LTBT briefings, spacing). No passage stating a commitment not to train or deploy models unless adequate safeguards are implemented, or a commitment to pause training or deployment until such safeguards are in place, was found within the operative text. Hits examined and not counted: the Introduction (p. 3), §1 (p. 4) and Appendix A scenario commitments (p. 17) as in v3.0; the Appendix A introduction sentences on cautionary action and considering pausing (p. 17), as in v3.1; the reproduced RSP v2.0 changelog entry (p. 18). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-2-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-3-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "subject": "rsp-v3-3", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards” was found in RSP · v3.3 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-05-26", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.3 was: RSP v3.3 (effective May 26, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–20: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 with the threshold table (pp. 4–10, columns on p. 9 read individually because the text layer interleaves them); §2–§3 Risk Reports (pp. 11–16); §4 Governance (p. 16); Appendix A (pp. 16–17); Appendix B (p. 17); Changelog (pp. 18–20). Method: Same reading, comparison and case-insensitive search terms as for v3.0, plus a comparison with v3.2 (differences: novel chemical/biological threshold, off-cycle model analyses, terminology). No passage stating a commitment not to train or deploy models unless adequate safeguards are implemented, or a commitment to pause training or deployment until such safeguards are in place, was found within the operative text. Hits examined and not counted: the Introduction (p. 3), §1 (p. 4) and Appendix A scenario commitments (p. 17) as in v3.0; the Appendix A introduction sentences on cautionary action and considering pausing (p. 17), as in v3.1; the reproduced RSP v2.0 changelog entry (p. 18). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-3-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "absent-rsp-v3-4-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "subject": "rsp-v3-4", "predicate": "provision_not_found", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "No passage stating the provision “Commitment not to train or deploy without adequate safeguards” was found in RSP · v3.4 within the inspected scope.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-07-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Absence recorded for this edition, dated by its effective date." }, "derivation": "inferred", "resolution": "supported", "inferenceRationale": "Premises: RSP · v2.2 states this provision. The inspected scope of RSP · v3.4 was: RSP v3.4 (effective July 8, 2026), whole text layer, PDF pp. 1–21: Introduction (pp. 3–4); §1 with the threshold table (pp. 4–10, columns on p. 9 read individually because the text layer interleaves them); §2–§3 Risk Reports (pp. 11–16); §4 Governance (p. 16); Appendix A and Appendix B (p. 17); Changelog (pp. 18–21). Method: Same reading, comparison and case-insensitive search terms as for v3.0, plus a word-level comparison with v3.3 (differences: Automated R&D threshold, Risk Report coverage date, internal sharing, redaction disclosure, external review split). No passage stating a commitment not to train or deploy models unless adequate safeguards are implemented, or a commitment to pause training or deployment until such safeguards are in place, was found within the operative text. Hits examined and not counted: the Introduction (p. 3), §1 (p. 4) and Appendix A scenario commitments (p. 17) as in v3.0; the Appendix A introduction sentences on cautionary action and considering pausing (p. 17), as in v3.1; the reproduced RSP v2.0 changelog entry (p. 18). The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A recorded absence within the stated scope: not a claim that the provision was deleted, and not a statement about practice or intent.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-absent-rsp-v3-4-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-03", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "rsp-no-train-deploy-without-safeguards", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "aia-art101-gpai-fines", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Commission fines on providers of general-purpose AI models up to 3% of turnover or EUR 15 million" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 101(1) provides that the Commission may impose on providers of general-purpose AI models fines not exceeding 3% of their annual total worldwide turnover in the preceding financial year or EUR 15,000,000, whichever is higher, when it finds that the provider intentionally or negligently (a) infringed the relevant provisions, (b) failed to comply with a request for a document or information or supplied incorrect, incomplete or misleading information, (c) failed to comply with a measure requested under Article 93, or (d) failed to give access to the model for an evaluation under Article 92.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A ceiling and a power, not a record of any fine. No fine under this Article is recorded. Article 113, third paragraph, point (b), excepts Article 101 (in Chapter XII) from the 2 August 2025 date of application (separate record). It states what the Regulation requires of the categories of provider it defines. Whether any named developer’s model falls within a category, and whether any developer complies, is legal application and is not recorded. A statutory duty is not evidence of implementation or enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (published 24 July 2026) amends other articles of the AI Act. Its text, inspected on 2026-10-10, does not list this article among those it amends; the consolidated AI Act was not inspected.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art101-gpai-fines-1", "evidence-aia-art101-gpai-fines-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-gpai-provider-fines", "kind": "decision_authority", "parties": [ { "actor": "Commission", "role": "decides" } ] } } }, { "id": "aia-art111-earlier-models", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Models placed on the market before 2 August 2025: comply by 2 August 2027" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 111(3) provides that providers of general-purpose AI models that have been placed on the market before 2 August 2025 shall take the necessary steps to comply with the obligations laid down in the Regulation by 2 August 2027.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A transitional date for models already on the market. The text does not identify any particular model; whether any named model was placed on the market before the date is a matter of fact and legal application that is not recorded. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amends other paragraphs of Article 111 (2 and a new 4); in the inspected text, paragraph 3 is not amended.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art111-earlier-models-1", "evidence-aia-art111-earlier-models-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-gpai-earlier-models-transition", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "aia-art113-chapter-v-date", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Chapters III (Section 4), V, VII and XII and Article 78 apply from 2 August 2025, except Article 101" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 113, third paragraph, point (b), provides that Chapter III Section 4, Chapter V, Chapter VII, Chapter XII and Article 78 apply from 2 August 2025, with the exception of Article 101.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Chapter V contains Articles 51 to 56 on general-purpose AI models. Article 101 (fines for providers of general-purpose AI models) is excepted from this date; the paragraph as published names no other date for Article 101, so the general date of 2 August 2026 is the only date the text gives for it. That reading is the reader’s to confirm and is not a separate record. Date of application is not evidence of compliance or enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 replaced points (a) and (c) of the third paragraph and added point (d); in the inspected text, point (b) is not amended.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art113-chapter-v-date-1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-chapter-v-date-of-application", "kind": "exception" } } }, { "id": "aia-art113-general-date", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "General date of application: 2 August 2026" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 113 provides that the Regulation applies from 2 August 2026, subject to the exceptions it lists.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Entry into force and the date of application are different events and the second has exceptions by chapter; see the record on Chapter V. The Regulation was published on 12 July 2024; the entry-into-force date computed from it is not stated in the text and is not recorded. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amended the third paragraph of Article 113 (points (a) and (c), and a new point (d)) but, in the inspected text, not this general date. Application is not enforcement.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art113-general-date-1", "evidence-aia-art113-general-date-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-general-date-of-application", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "aia-art3-systemic-risk-definition", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Systemic risk: a risk specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 3(65) defines “systemic risk” as a risk that is specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models, having a significant impact on the Union market due to their reach or due to actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on public health, safety, public security, fundamental rights or society as a whole, that can be propagated at scale across the value chain.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the definition says. Article 3(64) defines “high-impact capabilities” as capabilities that match or exceed those recorded in the most advanced general-purpose AI models. The operative provisions do not list specific systemic risks; the Code of Practice’s list of specified risks is a separate, voluntary text. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (published 24 July 2026) amends Article 3 (point (14) replaced, points (14a) and (14b) inserted) but, in the inspected text, not points (64) or (65); the consolidated AI Act was not inspected.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art3-systemic-risk-definition-1", "evidence-aia-art3-systemic-risk-definition-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-systemic-risk-definition", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "aia-art51-compute-presumption", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Presumed high-impact capabilities: training compute greater than 10^25 floating point operations" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 51(2) provides that a general-purpose AI model is presumed to have high impact capabilities pursuant to Article 51(1), point (a), when the cumulative computation used for its training, measured in floating point operations, is greater than 10^25.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A presumption of high impact capabilities, not a definition of systemic risk. Under Article 51(3) the Commission may amend the threshold by delegated act. Article 51(1)(b) separately lets the Commission designate a model with equivalent capabilities or impact, and Article 52(2) lets a provider argue that a model above the threshold does not present systemic risks. The exponent is set as a superscript in the Official Journal HTML and is recorded here as 10^25. California SB 53 uses a different measure (10^26 operations, a separate record). It states what the Regulation requires of the categories of provider it defines. Whether any named developer’s model falls within a category, and whether any developer complies, is legal application and is not recorded. A statutory duty is not evidence of implementation or enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (published 24 July 2026) amends other articles of the AI Act. Its text, inspected on 2026-10-10, does not list this article among those it amends; the consolidated AI Act was not inspected.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art51-compute-presumption-1", "evidence-aia-art51-compute-presumption-2", "evidence-aia-art51-compute-presumption-3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-gpai-systemic-risk-compute-presumption", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "aia-art52-notification", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Notify the Commission within two weeks of meeting the systemic-risk condition" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 52(1) requires the provider of a general-purpose AI model that meets the condition in Article 51(1)(a) to notify the Commission without delay and in any event within two weeks after the requirement is met or it becomes known that it will be met.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A duty of notification for models that meet the high-impact-capabilities condition. Article 52(2) lets the provider present arguments, with its notification, that the model does not present systemic risks; Article 52(3) says what follows if the Commission rejects them. It states what the Regulation requires of the categories of provider it defines. Whether any named developer’s model falls within a category, and whether any developer complies, is legal application and is not recorded. A statutory duty is not evidence of implementation or enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (published 24 July 2026) amends other articles of the AI Act. Its text, inspected on 2026-10-10, does not list this article among those it amends; the consolidated AI Act was not inspected.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-aia-art52-notification-1", "evidence-aia-art52-notification-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-10", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "aia-systemic-risk-notification", "kind": "required_action", "parties": [ { "actor": "Commission", "role": "informed" } ] } } }, { "id": "aia-art53-open-source-exception", "subject": "eu-ai-act-2024", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Open-source exemption from two documentation duties does not cover models with systemic risk" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Article 53(2) exempts providers of models released under a free and open-source licence, with publicly available parameters, architecture information and usage information, from the documentation duties in Article 53(1), points (a) and (b). The exemption does not apply to general-purpose AI models with systemic risks.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-07-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as published in the Official Journal on 2024-07-12 (the Regulation is dated 13 June 2024). Dates of application are stated separately in Article 113." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The statement restates the paragraph’s scope. The exemption covers points (a) and (b) only; the duties in points (c) and (d) and Article 53(3) are not exempted by this paragraph. It states what the Regulation requires of the categories of provider it defines. Whether any named developer’s model falls within a category, and whether any developer complies, is legal application and is not recorded. A statutory duty is not evidence of implementation or enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (published 24 July 2026) amends other articles of the AI Act. 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Fried and Reiter describe partial investor insulation and favour constraints on guardian overreach; they do not simply deny an effective checking role. Outside counsel describe the arrangement’s accountability and amendment mechanisms. Source dates and subsequent phase-in must be distinguished. 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Wording attested from the 1999-01-28 capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-01", "evidence-ec-e01-02" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "1999-01-28", "note": "Wayback capture of the author-hosted page." }, "missing": "(E01-01) No machine intelligence improving itself or its successors; \"singularity\" is framed purely as a growth-rate episode. (E01-02) Addresses a growth explosion from any single technology; no AI improving AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Journal article by an author with economist standing in 1998: the archived January 1999 homepage and vita show an economics address, economics teaching in 1995–96 and economics publications before 1998 (checked by the GPT review on 2026-10-15; web.archive.org was not reachable in the correction pass). The vita gives a 1997 PhD without naming the field, so \"economics PhD\" is not claimed.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-1998-some-skepticism-b", "subject": "hanson-1998-some-skepticism", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Some Skepticism (comment in \"A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept\")” (1998-10) bears on E01. Hanson tests a growth-rate reading of Vinge against growth economics: a one-time intelligence gain gives a one-time jump in output, not faster growth.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Copyright line \"©1998 by Robin Hanson\" at the end of the comment; the author's December 2000 vita (2000-12-05 capture of hanson.gmu.edu/vita.html) lists the discussion as \"Extropy Online, Oct. 1998\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view; it addresses the economic-growth reading of Vinge's claim. Tier 2. 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Hanson had economist standing by 1998 (see the record of his 1998 journal article); tier 2 follows from the form, not the author.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-1998-some-skepticism-c", "subject": "hanson-1998-some-skepticism", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Some Skepticism (comment in \"A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept\")” (1998-10) contests E01. Hanson's main objection to an intelligence explosion: diminishing returns to self-improvement, illustrated by schooling and factory learning curves.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Copyright line \"©1998 by Robin Hanson\" at the end of the comment; the author's December 2000 vita (2000-12-05 capture of hanson.gmu.edu/vita.html) lists the discussion as \"Extropy Online, Oct. 1998\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view. Tier 2. Wording attested from the 2000 capture, signed ©1998.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-05" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-11-17", "note": "Earliest retrieved capture of the page; the CDX index was unavailable, so an earlier capture is not excluded." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Accepts the self-redesign mechanism as stated and argues that its returns diminish, so intelligence does not explode." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located-tier-2", "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Short-form comment in an online symposium: tier 2 by form under the rule of 2026-10-11/12. 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The old URL http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/ai-go-foom.html redirects here (recorded by the GPT check); the 2008 page itself was not retrieved. The wording was checked in the MIRI compilation of 2013." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Hanson's paraphrase of Yudkowsky's argument, not his own view: he summarises it \"as best I can, so I can then respond\". Tier 2. Post date 20 November 2008, from the original Overcoming Bias page (datePublished 2008-11-20T03:00:00Z, retrieved 2026-10-15). The compilation's heading \"10 November 2008\" is wrong: the post quotes \"Setting the Stage\" (18 November 2008), and the compilation places it between posts of 20 and 21 November. The UTC timestamp may correspond to the evening of 19 November in US time; the 2008 page was not retrieved.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-08" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "relay", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-2008-setting-the-stage-b", "subject": "hanson-2008-setting-the-stage", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Setting the Stage” (2008-11-18), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E01. Hanson summarises points of agreement and disagreement with Yudkowsky at the start of the debate.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own probability for a sudden local takeoff; the same sentence gives \"over 10%\" as his reading of Yudkowsky's estimate. Tier 2. Corrected 2026-10-15: the sentence concerns a sudden local takeover by one system, which E01 does not require; Hanson's contest of the feedback loop itself is in \"Wrapping Up\" (7 December 2008).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-09" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Puts a low probability on one hand-coded system going suddenly from nearly powerless to overwhelmingly powerful; it does not deny that AI improving AI could accelerate capability growth.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-2008-wrapping-up-c", "subject": "hanson-2008-wrapping-up", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Wrapping Up” (2008-12-07), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, contests E01. Hanson's objection to Yudkowsky's \"growth math\"; he repeats it in \"What Core Argument?\" (10 December 2008).", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-07", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view. Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-10" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Accepts that feedback loops can in principle yield accelerating growth and argues that diminishing returns and other factors normally mute them." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-2011-debating-yudkowsky-b", "subject": "hanson-2011-debating-yudkowsky", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Debating Yudkowsky” (2011-07-03), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E01. Hanson concludes his five reasons why powerful architectural insights are rare.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2011-07-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view; it contests the fast, local form of E01 and not AI self-improvement in general. Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-11" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Doubts that one team's architectural innovation could take it from tiny to world takeover within weeks; the passage accepts future superintelligences and does not deny accelerating AI self-improvement in general.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-2013-foom-debate-again-b", "subject": "hanson-2013-foom-debate-again", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Foom Debate, Again” (2013-02-18), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E01. Hanson restates his position in 2013, granting the novelty of self-modification while doubting that it produces a foom.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-02-18", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view: a concession that AI self-improvement is a new factor; in the next sentence he argues that one more factor is unlikely to generate foom. Tier 2. Kept bears-on on 2026-10-15 against the GPT check (contests): the quoted words are the concession; the doubt (\"seems unlikely to generate foom\") is in the next sentence and concerns foom, as in \"Setting the Stage\" (18 November 2008) and \"Debating Yudkowsky\" (3 July 2011).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-12" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A concession that intentional mind redesign could matter, followed at once by \"seems unlikely to generate foom\".", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence-b", "subject": "hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence” (2000-08-19) bears on E01. In an endogenous learning-by-doing variant, the model loses steady-state solutions and growth keeps accelerating.", "time": { "date": "2000-08-19", "kind": "event", "note": "The file carries no date (PDF creation metadata 2000-06-22; Berkeley address). Dated by the earliest retrieved capture, which attests the wording (maintainer decision 2026-10-09)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A model scenario, not Hanson's forecast; he sets it aside \"to remain conservative\". The acceleration comes from learning by doing in the economy, not from AI improving AI.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-08-19", "note": "Capture of the PDF (PDF metadata: created 2000-06-22). No earlier capture was retrieved: year-only Wayback requests for this URL and for hanson.berkeley.edu/aigrow.pdf found none, and the CDX index was unavailable during retrieval, so an earlier capture is not excluded." }, "claimed": { "date": "1998", "note": "Author's own citation in the December 2000 paper. The PDF gives the author's Berkeley address; his vita lists a Berkeley postdoc in 1997–1999 and a George Mason post from 1999. The 1998 wording was not retrieved." }, "conditions": "Learning-by-doing technology with parameters such that the expression for steady growth is not positive.", "missing": "Accelerating growth via endogenous technology; no machine intelligence improving its own design.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Working paper by an economist (Hanson).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-hyytinen-2017-kak-editorial-b", "subject": "hyytinen-2017-kak-editorial", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hyytinen, “Ovatko hyvät johtamismenetelmät talouskasvun lähde? (pääkirjoitus)” (2017) bears on E01. Hyytinen defines the \"economic-growth singularity\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017", "kind": "event", "note": "Issue 4/2017. The upload path (2017/12) suggests December but does not establish the publication month. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. A definition of others' idea; the main text calls it apparently improbable. Robotisation and AI accelerate technological progress; AI does not improve AI.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-19" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "AI accelerates general technological progress; no AI improving AI.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja is a core venue for the Finnish strand (maintainer decision of 2026-10-12), so tier 1 regardless of form. The editorial is signed by the journal's editor, an economics professor, and cites the economics literature (footnote 3).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-jones-2023-ai-dilemma-b", "subject": "jones-2023-ai-dilemma", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Jones, “The A.I. Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk” (2023-11) bears on E01. Cites Aghion, Jones and Jones (2019), Trammell and Korinek (2020), Davidson (2021), Nordhaus (2021), Erdil and Besiroglu (2023).", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2023\". Journal version: AER: Insights, December 2024 (abstract page aeri2024-jones). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER w31837, November 2023; later published in AER: Insights (December 2024).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-22" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "'Once machines can produce ideas'; 'could', 'potentially'.", "missing": "Growth explosion from automated idea production (G02); does not state that AI improves AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Jones is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-korinek-suh-2024-scenarios-transition-agi-b", "subject": "korinek-suh-2024-scenarios-transition-agi", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Korinek and Suh, “Scenarios for the Transition to AGI” (2024-03) bears on E01. Following Aghion et al. (2019) and Trammell and Korinek (2023), the model shows a 'type II singularity' (infinite output in finite time) once automation passes a threshold.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"March 2024\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER w32255, March 2024. The cached text drops 'fi'/'fl' ligatures and em dashes; quotes were chosen or elided around them.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-25" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Sufficient automation of final-output and knowledge production; constant saving rate and allocation; no depreciation.", "missing": "Self-reinforcing growth from automated R&D (G02); AI does not improve AI in the model.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Korinek and Suh are economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity-a", "subject": "nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Nordhaus, “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth” (2015-09) articulates E01. Nordhaus quotes I. J. Good to explain the Singularity idea.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Nordhaus quotes Good (a non-economist); the view is Good's. Nordhaus then turns to \"the implicit economic assumptions that lie behind it\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-14" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "relay", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Nordhaus an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity-b", "subject": "nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Nordhaus, “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth” (2015-09) bears on E01. Nordhaus summarises his tests: five of seven are negative, and the two positive ones put the Singularity 100 years or more away.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Nordhaus's own empirical result. It tests a growth Singularity (20% annual growth), not AI improving AI; it is a conditional extrapolation. The ellipsis removes \"Using simple extrapolation for the two positive tests\"; five of Nordhaus's seven tests are negative, and \"100 years or more\" is a conditional extrapolation, not a forecast.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-15" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Simple extrapolation of the two positive tests.", "missing": "A growth-singularity test (growth above 20% a year), not AI improving AI (scope boundary).", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Nordhaus an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-trammell-korinek-2023-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber-a", "subject": "trammell-korinek-2023-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Trammell and Korinek, “Economic Growth under Transformative AI (October 2023 version)” (2023-10) articulates E01. Discussing AI safety, the authors say models in which capital recursively self-improves without human input are the most worrying for existential risk.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "October 2023 version. Describes a class of models, linked to AI risk; not a forecast.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e01-23" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2023-11-29", "note": "Wayback capture 20231129164044 of the NBER PDF." }, "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Korinek and Trammell are economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e01-trammell-korinek-2023-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber-b", "subject": "trammell-korinek-2023-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-improving-ai-accelerates-capability", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Trammell and Korinek, “Economic Growth under Transformative AI (October 2023 version)” (2023-10) bears on E01. 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Explaining their focus on average wages and the labour share, the authors state that the likeliest transformative long-run scenario is AI outsmarting all humans.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "October 2023 version. 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Definition of AGI used in the review's introduction.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023, Revised April 2026\". The retrieved PDF is the April 2026 revision. 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The editors summarise Patrick Francois's comment on a world where machines are better at all tasks.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\"; \"Conference Date: September 13–14, 2017\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. The editors summarise Francois and link to Bostrom; not the editors' own argument. Frames value-loading as a political problem, not as existential risk. \"value- loading\" is spaced as in the source.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-09" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Value specification as a political task; no extinction or loss-of-control risk is stated.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-gans-2018-self-regulating-agi-a", "subject": "gans-2018-self-regulating-agi", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Gans, “Self-Regulating Artificial General Intelligence” (2018-02) articulates E03. Gans takes Bostrom's control problem and \"paperclip apocalypse\" into economic theory. Gans states the scope of his self-regulation result.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"February 2018\"; Crossref issued 2018-02. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Gans's own framing. (Second passage) A model result: it treats destruction of humanity as a possibility and argues that the model narrows it.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-07", "evidence-ec-e03-08" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Assumptions A1 (an AI self-improves only by employing AIs with targeted goals) and A2 (improving power requires power-accumulation capabilities).", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Gans is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-gans-2023-socially-minded-governance-agi-b", "subject": "gans-2023-socially-minded-governance-agi", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Gans, “Can Socially-Minded Governance Control the AGI Beast?” (2023-11) bears on E03. Refers to the 'potential existential risks' that motivated OpenAI's funders; the model then assumes the risks are real.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2023\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER w31924, November 2023. Gans cites his own 2018 paper (Gans 2018, source nber-w24352 in this pack) as questioning salience. Corrected 2026-10-15: the earlier qualification called the model's harm a positive externality and said the 2018 paper was not retrieved.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-14" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A literature and motivation statement, not a substantive economic treatment of the risk; the model treats harm from dangerous users as an expected negative externality (E > 0), not as extinction or loss of control.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Gans is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-hanson-2008-setting-the-stage-b", "subject": "hanson-2008-setting-the-stage", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Setting the Stage” (2008-11-18), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E03. 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Hanson argues that property-rights institutions protect humans in his preferred emulation scenario.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-07", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view about emulations, not designed AI. It treats extermination as a possibility answered by institutional economics. Tier 2. Kept bears-on on 2026-10-15 against the GPT check (articulates): the passage concerns emulations, which this strand treats as outside designed AI (audit.md, kept disagreements of 2026-10-11).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-02" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Concerns emulations rather than misaligned AI; it argues that extermination is unlikely and puts no risk into a welfare or policy analysis.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-jones-2023-ai-dilemma-a", "subject": "jones-2023-ai-dilemma", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Jones, “The A.I. Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk” (2023-11) articulates E03. The abstract sets growth gains against existential risk, which it attributes to 'many experts', and frames the paper as a welfare analysis of whether to continue or stop. First of four insights: 'With log utility, the models are remarkably unconcerned with existential risk'. Insight 2 says CRRA utility with γ of 2 or more is 'quite conservative'. Key Point 3: with γ ≤ 1 any risk short of sure annihilation is acceptable for an immediate singularity; with γ = 2 or 3 the cutoffs are much smaller. The 'key exception' to the conservative result: mortality gains are 'in the same units' as existential risk.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2023\". Journal version: AER: Insights, December 2024 (abstract page aeri2024-jones). 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Holds with γ = 3, an immediate singularity and a one-time risk; material quantitative claim. (Fourth passage) NBER w31837, November 2023; later published in AER: Insights (December 2024).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-10", "evidence-ec-e03-11", "evidence-ec-e03-12", "evidence-ec-e03-13" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "(E03-11) Log utility; simple static model. (E03-12) γ = 3; immediate singularity with infinite consumption; no A.I. mortality improvement; ρ − b = 1%, g0 = 2%, m0 = 1%, v(c0) = 6. (E03-13) If A.I.-driven innovation extends life expectancy and reduces mortality.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Jones is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-jones-2024-ai-dilemma-aer-insights-a", "subject": "jones-2024-ai-dilemma-aer-insights", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Jones, “The AI Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk” (2024-12) articulates E03. Published version of Jones's working paper; the abstract attributes existential risk from a misaligned superintelligence to 'many experts'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Crossref record doi:10.1257/aeri.20230570 (issued 2024-12). 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The working paper (November 2023) carries the same sentence with 'A.I.' spelling and is the earlier dated text.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-16" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "AER: Insights (AEA journal); Jones is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-jones-2025-spend-to-reduce-ai-existential-risk-a", "subject": "jones-2025-spend-to-reduce-ai-existential-risk", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Jones, “How Much Should We Spend to Reduce A.I.'s Existential Risk?” (2025-03) articulates E03. Sentence continues 'in the Covid-19 pandemic'; Jones adds that mortality risk to people alive 'more than justifies spending large amounts'. Abstract follows a back-of-envelope calculation from a $10 million value of life and a 1% mortality risk. Preceded by the note that 12–33% of runs lead to zero mitigation investment (very small or hard-to-mitigate risk). After saying that valuing future generations would raise the amount.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"March 2025\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER w33602, March 2025. Quote stops before 'Covid-19' because the cached text loses its line-break hyphen. (Second passage) NBER w33602, March 2025. Material quantitative claim: conditional on the model and its parameter ranges ('most of the scenarios'); 12–33% of Monte Carlo runs yield zero mitigation. Holds \"for most of the scenarios and parameter combinations considered\" in the model; material quantitative claim. (Third passage) NBER w33602, March 2025. Material quantitative claim: an average over 10 million simulations drawn from the paper's assumed uniform parameter distributions (Table 1), not an estimate of actual risk. A mean across Monte Carlo draws with the extinction risk drawn uniformly from 0–2%; the median is about 6.4% and 12–33% of runs give zero spending; material quantitative claim. (Fourth passage) NBER w33602, March 2025. 'Very likely' is Jones's judgement from the model; it presumes the risk magnitudes experts report.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-17", "evidence-ec-e03-18", "evidence-ec-e03-19", "evidence-ec-e03-20" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "(E03-18) 'For most of the scenarios and parameter combinations considered'; no weight on future generations. (E03-19) Monte Carlo average over assumed parameter distributions; zero altruism to future generations.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Jones is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-korinek-stiglitz-2017-ai-income-distribution-a", "subject": "korinek-stiglitz-2017-ai-income-distribution", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Korinek and Stiglitz, “Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment” (2017-12) articulates E03. The authors discuss whether humans can keep property rights over AI entities. Drawing on Korinek (2017), the authors describe a Malthusian race between humans and autonomous AI entities.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"December 2017\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) The authors' own reasoning: loss of control framed through property rights. Speculative; in a footnote. (Second passage) A model scenario that assumes AI entities operate autonomously; it describes human decline through factor-price competition, not violent extinction.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-05", "evidence-ec-e03-06" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "(E03-05) If the intelligence gap between humans and super-intelligent AI entities grows too large. (E03-06) Humans do not or cannot assert ownership over AI entities; AI reproduction technology improves exponentially.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-korinek-stiglitz-2017-ai-income-distribution-b", "subject": "korinek-stiglitz-2017-ai-income-distribution", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Korinek and Stiglitz, “Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment” (2017-12) bears on E03. The footnote qualifies the authors' assumption that \"our social and economic system will be maintained\" after AGI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"December 2017\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Reported view of AI-safety researchers (Bostrom 2013); the authors set doom scenarios aside by assumption. Kept bears-on on 2026-10-15 against the GPT check (articulates): the reported view is not economic analysis, and the authors' own act is to set the scenario aside by assumption.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-04" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Reports AI-safety researchers' doom scenarios in a footnote; the main text assumes them away.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity-a", "subject": "nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Nordhaus, “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth” (2015-09) articulates E03. Nordhaus adds the superintelligent machines themselves to his list of risks in a section on \"evil agents\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Nordhaus's own concern, phrased conditionally (\"If we are to take seriously Good's description\"). Qualitative; not quantified in his model. No extinction is named, although \"Will the superintelligent treat us as flies to wonton boys?\" follows. The ellipsis drops the condition \"If we are to take seriously Good's description…\". The concern is qualitative, not part of a welfare calculation.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "If Good's description of superintelligence is taken seriously.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Nordhaus an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-trammell-korinek-2023-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber-a", "subject": "trammell-korinek-2023-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Trammell and Korinek, “Economic Growth under Transformative AI (October 2023 version)” (2023-10) articulates E03. The authors frame AI safety as a public good to which public-goods and climate-risk economics could apply.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "October 2023 version. Conditional on AI posing existential risk.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-15" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2023-11-29", "note": "Wayback capture 20231129164044 of the NBER PDF." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Korinek and Trammell are economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e03-trammell-korinek-2026-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber-revision-a", "subject": "trammell-korinek-2026-growth-under-transformative-ai-nber-revision", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-existential-risk-in-economic-analysis", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Trammell and Korinek, “Economic Growth under Transformative AI” (2023-10) articulates E03. Concluding subsection placing AI existential risk within the paper's framing of economic transformation; it goes on to say the scenarios carry different risk profiles.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023, Revised April 2026\". The retrieved PDF is the April 2026 revision. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Wording checked against the April 2026 revision of NBER w31815 (first issued October 2023); whether this wording appears in the October 2023 version was not checked, so it is attested only from April 2026. The concerns are attributed to Bostrom and the CAIS statement; the authors' own contribution is classifying them as an extreme form of economic transformation, not an estimate of the risk. The passage cites 2023 material and may postdate the October 2023 version.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e03-21" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2026-04", "note": "Revision date on the cover of the retrieved PDF; the October 2023 wording is recorded under source nber-w31815-2023." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Korinek is an economist, Trammell an economist (Oxford, GPI).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-bueno-de-mesquita-dziuda-polborn-2026-agi-race-a", "subject": "bueno-de-mesquita-dziuda-polborn-2026-agi-race", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Bueno de Mesquita, Dziuda and Polborn, “The AGI Race and Existential Risk” (2026-05) articulates E04. Model of firms allocating scarce resources between speed and safety in a race to AGI; the abstract opens by questioning the common assumption that competition and resources increase risk. Holds above a critical market size; below it firms have positive expected payoff from achieving AGI. The model's risk variable is 'doom risk'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Crossref issued 2026-05. PDF refused (HTTP 403); NBER abstract page used. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER w35276, May 2026; abstract page only. (Second passage) NBER w35276, May 2026; abstract page only. Holds above the model's critical market size (abstract).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-15", "evidence-ec-e04-16" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Market size above the model's critical cutoff.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); the authors are political economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-gans-2018-self-regulating-agi-b", "subject": "gans-2018-self-regulating-agi", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Gans, “Self-Regulating Artificial General Intelligence” (2018-02) bears on E04. Gans draws a governance implication from his model.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"February 2018\"; Crossref issued 2018-02. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Policy implication of a model result. It concerns AI property rights, not developers' incentives.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-09" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Governance of AI property, not developers' incentives or competition.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Gans is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-gans-2023-socially-minded-governance-agi-a", "subject": "gans-2023-socially-minded-governance-agi", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Gans, “Can Socially-Minded Governance Control the AGI Beast?” (2023-11) articulates E04. Abstract: a model under idealised conditions (AGI risks real, safe AGI possible, socially-minded funders exist) motivated by OpenAI's governance. Case in which the for-profit entity is viable in direct competition; 'they' is the socially-minded entity. Conclusion; Gans adds that whether national or global intervention is needed is left to future research, while the results point to the latter.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2023\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER w31924, November 2023. Result of a stylised investment-race model; harm is a generic externality E, not specifically extinction. (Second passage) NBER w31924, November 2023. (Third passage) NBER w31924, November 2023.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-10", "evidence-ec-e04-11", "evidence-ec-e04-12" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "(E04-10) Idealised assumptions; non-excludable technology; financial-viability constraint. (E04-11) For-profit entity viable in competition with the socially-minded entity.", "qualifier": "A model scenario under stated conditions, not the author’s own claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Gans is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-hanson-2008-emulations-go-foom-b", "subject": "hanson-2008-emulations-go-foom", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Emulations Go Foom” (2008-11-22), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E04. Hanson's scenario of competing whole-brain-emulation (\"bot\") projects.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's scenario about emulations, not designed AI. The race argument bears on whether one developer could dominate, not directly on safety. Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-02" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "The race is analysed for leads and dominance; the safety or control of the systems is not discussed here.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-hanson-2008-friendliness-factors-a", "subject": "hanson-2008-friendliness-factors", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Friendliness Factors” (2008-11-16), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, articulates E04. Hanson lists competition factors (info leaks, shared standards, anti-trust, sharing deals) that affect how far a winner leads.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-11-16", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own view; links the structure of competition among developers to concern about the winner's \"friendliness\". Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-01" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located-tier-2" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-hanson-2008-friendly-projects-vs-products-a", "subject": "hanson-2008-friendly-projects-vs-products", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Friendly Projects vs. Products” (2008-12-05), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, articulates E04. Hanson separates \"project friendliness\" (how race winners treat losers) from \"product friendliness\" (whether creations rebel). Hanson qualifies his claim that developers have strong incentives to avoid rebellious creations.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Hanson's own view on developers' incentives regarding control of their creations. Tier 2. (Second passage) Hanson's own view: an externality argument for regulating AI developers. Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-03", "evidence-ec-e04-04" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-hanson-2008-wrapping-up-a", "subject": "hanson-2008-wrapping-up", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Wrapping Up” (2008-12-07), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, articulates E04. Hanson proposes liability and insurance for AI developers as the institutional answer to the friendliness problem.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-07", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own policy proposal. \"Hurt\" is generic harm, not extinction specifically. Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-05" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-hanson-2008-wrapping-up-b", "subject": "hanson-2008-wrapping-up", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Wrapping Up” (2008-12-07), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E04. Hanson on why Yudkowsky's concern feels urgent.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-07", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hanson's own conditional claim about governance; the scenario of severe regulation is hypothetical. Tier 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-06" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A counterfactual about regulation, not an analysis of developers' incentives.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-jones-2025-spend-to-reduce-ai-existential-risk-a", "subject": "jones-2025-spend-to-reduce-ai-existential-risk", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Jones, “How Much Should We Spend to Reduce A.I.'s Existential Risk?” (2025-03) articulates E04. Listed among 'many related questions that merit further study'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"March 2025\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER w33602, March 2025. Stated as a direction for research; not modelled in the paper.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-13" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Jones is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-korinek-stiglitz-2017-ai-income-distribution-b", "subject": "korinek-stiglitz-2017-ai-income-distribution", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Korinek and Stiglitz, “Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment” (2017-12) bears on E04. The authors consider halting AI progress before turning to a human \"reservation\" policy.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"December 2017\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The authors' own reasoning on whether development can be governed. They do not analyse developer incentives in detail.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e04-08" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Asks whether humanity should slow or halt AI progress; does not analyse developers' incentives.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e04-nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity-b", "subject": "nordhaus-2015-economic-singularity", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-developer-incentives-and-safety", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Nordhaus, “Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth” (2015-09) bears on E04. Nordhaus compares the diffusion of superintelligence technology with that of weapons technology.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\". 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Closing sentence of the dangerous-AI subsection.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023, Revised April 2026\". The retrieved PDF is the April 2026 revision. 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First of four possible medium-run macro effects of AI; the paper analyses the more modest task-level effects.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"May 2024\". The economics-growth pack records an author-hosted version dated 2024-04-05. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER w32487, May 2024. E05 boundary, option A (maintainer decision of 2026-10-15): bears on E05, because it sets the singularity aside in one paper; that is not a statement about the field.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e05-25" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Explicitly sets the singularity aside from the analysis; it neither states nor rejects AI self-improvement or superintelligence, and the 'singularity' meant is a productivity revolution.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e05-aghion-jones-jones-2017-ai-and-economic-growth-a", "subject": "aghion-jones-jones-2017-ai-and-economic-growth", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "economics-engagement-with-superintelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Aghion, Jones and Jones, “Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth” (2017-10) articulates E05. The abstract lists singularities and superintelligence among the questions for an economics research agenda.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2017\". Chapter in the NBER Economics of AI volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Places the concepts on an agenda while attributing them to the machine-intelligence community. Later published in the NBER volume (2019); this is the October 2017 working paper. Articulates E05 (2026-10-15): it puts singularities and superintelligence on an economics research agenda, which the E05 criterion names (\"now on the agenda of economics\").", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e05-09" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e05-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction-a", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "economics-engagement-with-superintelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans and Goldfarb, “Introduction to \"The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda\"” (2019-05) articulates E05. The editors justify including superintelligence in an economics agenda. The editors characterise how much the volume covers superintelligence.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\"; \"Conference Date: September 13–14, 2017\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) The editors' own statement; it is conditional and makes no forecast. The conference was in September 2017 and the book was published in May 2019. (Second passage) The editors' own statement: the topic is touched on but is not central.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e05-14", "evidence-ec-e05-15" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e05-andrews-farboodi-2025-markets-transformative-ai-b", "subject": "andrews-farboodi-2025-markets-transformative-ai", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "economics-engagement-with-superintelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Andrews and Farboodi, “Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?” (2025-09) bears on E05. Event study of US Treasury and TIPS yields around 30 frontier-lab model releases (Nov 2022–Dec 2025).", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Crossref issued 2025-09. 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The abstract page shows \"Revision Date July 2026\" and describes data to December 2025, so this wording is attested from July 2026 only.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e05-28" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2026-07", "note": "The NBER abstract page shows \"Revision Date July 2026\"; the abstract describes data to December 2025." }, "missing": "Evidence about investors' beliefs on transformative AI, inferred from yields; not about superintelligence, self-improvement or existential risk, and not a statement about economics as a field.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Andrews and Farboodi are economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e05-brynjolfsson-korinek-agrawal-2025-research-agenda-transformative-ai-b", "subject": "brynjolfsson-korinek-agrawal-2025-research-agenda-transformative-ai", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "economics-engagement-with-superintelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Brynjolfsson, Korinek and Agrawal, “A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI” (2025-09) bears on E05. Opening sentence of the research-agenda abstract ('As we approach Transformative Artificial Intelligence (TAI), …'). The agenda's list; 'safety risks' is one of nine challenges.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Crossref issued 2025-09. PDF refused (HTTP 403); NBER abstract page used. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER w34256, September 2025; abstract page only. (Second passage) NBER w34256, September 2025; abstract page only. 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(E05-30) \"Safety risks\" in an abstract list; existential risk is not stated in the retrieved text.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Brynjolfsson, Korinek and Agrawal are economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e05-cowen-2019-neglected-open-questions-b", "subject": "cowen-2019-neglected-open-questions", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "economics-engagement-with-superintelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Cowen, “Neglected Open Questions in the Economics of Artificial Intelligence” (2019-05) bears on E05. Cowen's chapter on neglected questions sets aside labour substitution and turns to consumer surplus, trade and redistribution.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\". 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Gans explains why he takes a different modelling route.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"February 2018\"; Crossref issued 2018-02. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "An explicit statement that economists' principal-agent tools are inadequate for controlling a superintelligence, which motivates the paper's own model: a statement about the state of economics on the topic (articulates since 2026-10-15). 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Hanson argues that growth economics, not newly invented categories, should frame the intelligence-explosion question.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-02-18", "kind": "event", "note": "Post date from the post’s heading in the MIRI compilation of 2013, where the wording was checked; the original page was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A normative claim about which discipline should frame the question, not a record of economics engaging with it. Tier 2. 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Hanson justifies his paper by a gap in economic research. Hanson's closing call for more economic research.", "time": { "date": "2000-08-19", "kind": "event", "note": "The file carries no date (PDF creation metadata 2000-06-22; Berkeley address). Dated by the earliest retrieved capture, which attests the wording (maintainer decision 2026-10-09)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) A neglect statement about the economics of machine intelligence that substitutes for human labour, not about superintelligence or RSI. Wording attested from the 2000-08-19 capture; author-dated 1998. E05 boundary, option A (maintainer decision of 2026-10-15): bears on E05, because its neglect statement concerns machine intelligence that does human jobs, which the maintainer does not count as AGI for E05 (as for E02, decision of 2026-10-15); it belongs with the parent pack's M09. (Second passage) A call for scrutiny of machine intelligence generally, not of superintelligence. Wording attested from the 2000-08-19 capture. E05 boundary, option A (maintainer decision of 2026-10-15): bears on E05, because its call for scrutiny concerns machine intelligence that does human jobs, which the maintainer does not count as AGI for E05 (as for E02, decision of 2026-10-15).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e05-02", "evidence-ec-e05-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-08-19", "note": "Capture of the PDF (PDF metadata: created 2000-06-22). No earlier capture was retrieved: year-only Wayback requests for this URL and for hanson.berkeley.edu/aigrow.pdf found none, and the CDX index was unavailable during retrieval, so an earlier capture is not excluded." }, "claimed": { "date": "1998", "note": "Author's own citation in the December 2000 paper. 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Editorial in the Finnish economics association's journal; it calls the idea \"apparently improbable but interesting\" before turning to management practices.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017", "kind": "event", "note": "Issue 4/2017. The upload path (2017/12) suggests December but does not establish the publication month. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Hyytinen's own assessment. The topic is a growth singularity (robotisation and AI accelerating technological progress), not superintelligence; footnote 3 cites Brynjolfsson and McAfee, Nordhaus (2015) and Aghion, Jones and Jones (2017). 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Personal statement about standard economics' reach, not a survey of the field.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-e05-26" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-16", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); Jones is an economist.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-e05-jones-2025-spend-to-reduce-ai-existential-risk-b", "subject": "jones-2025-spend-to-reduce-ai-existential-risk", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "economics-engagement-with-superintelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Jones, “How Much Should We Spend to Reduce A.I.'s Existential Risk?” (2025-03) bears on E05. Related-literature paragraph that also cites Aschenbrenner (2020), Aschenbrenner and Trammell (2024) and Martin and Pindyck.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"March 2025\". 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Closing their review, Trammell and Korinek say that existential risk from AI, central in futurist discussion, is almost absent from economics, because existing growth models offer no obvious mechanism for it. The authors attribute the profession's inattention to growth singularities to a modelling norm tied to the Kaldor facts, not to the models themselves. Footnote dating Sandberg's 2013 overview of singularity models to before mainstream economists' engagement with transformative AI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) October 2023 version (Wayback capture 2023-11-29). The authors' characterisation of the literature, not a census: Korinek and Stiglitz (2017) and Gans (2018), both recorded under E03, already treat control or catastrophe. The next sentence says the absence is \"not primarily 'by choice'\"; footnote 38 notes generic catastrophic-risk models (Martin and Pindyck 2015; Aschenbrenner 2020). The April 2026 revision replaces this sentence: existential-risk valuation \"has generated substantial recent analysis\" (Jones 2024, 2025; Shulman and Thornley 2025). Corrected 2026-10-15. (Second passage) October 2023 version (Wayback capture 2023-11-29). 'These possibilities' are permanent shifts in growth rates and singularities with ever-increasing growth rates. Articulates E05 since 2026-10-15: an explicit statement of the profession's inattention to AI-driven growth singularities, the same topic as Nordhaus's 2015 remark recorded under E05 (\"Singularity\" as growth acceleration driven by computation and AI). (Third passage) October 2023 version. 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The review opens by dating economists' awareness of AI's transformative potential to Simon's prediction.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "October 2023 version. Dates Simon's prediction to 1960; Nordhaus (2015) and Armer (1966) relay a similar statement from Simon's 1965 book. 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Cites Jones (2024, 2025) and Shulman and Thornley (2025), and Trammell and Aschenbrenner (2026) on precaution possibly increasing long-term risk. The authors introduce their synthesis of 'the most influential papers on the topic' of transformative AI and growth. Footnote: most models Sandberg summarised did not spell out how AI would fit standard economic models; 'Our review fills this gap.'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2023, Revised April 2026\". The retrieved PDF is the April 2026 revision. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Wording checked against the April 2026 revision of NBER w31815 (first issued October 2023); whether this wording appears in the October 2023 version was not checked, so it is attested only from April 2026. 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Karnofsky, who writes that he asked Roodman to evaluate Hanson's work, states what he takes from the post; he \"wouldn't take the model discussed in this piece literally\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2020-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Comment timestamp \"June 15, 2020 at 10:44 am\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "A comment by a different author on Roodman's post. The same passage is recorded under G09.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g03-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2020-06-23", "note": "Capture of the post with its comments; comments are absent from the 2022 page." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located-tier-2" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (unchanged). 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Research report by an author with no economics appointment, degree, address or affiliation shown in or near the text and no established record as an economist; the report says it is written to be accessible to non-economists. Under the 2026-10-11 rule the venue does not decide; the author does.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g04-erdil-besiroglu-2023-explosive-growth-review-c", "subject": "erdil-besiroglu-2023-explosive-growth-review", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "unautomated-tasks-bottleneck-growth", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Erdil and Besiroglu, “Explosive growth from AI automation: A review of the arguments” (2023-10-01) contests G04. Based on a CES task model calibrated with a range of substitution parameters: fast automation of most tasks can give a large transitory boost even with bottlenecks. Section 3.1 treats the objection that \"the training or deployment of AI systems will be sufficiently impeded by regulation\"; the authors argue that incentives for AI adoption resemble those for nuclear proliferation, so coordination to slow it is likely to be imperfect.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of v2, the checked version. arXiv submission history (2026 capture of the abstract page): v1 2023-09-20, v2 2023-10-01, v3 2024-07-15." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) The authors add that they consider this argument \"on shakier ground\" than their other arguments. Absent from v3 (2024-07-15) in this wording. Conditions completed and context-only flag added after the cross-family check. (Second passage) Moved from G05 under the G04/G05 criterion of 2026-10-10: the regulation discussed acts on AI training and deployment, that is, on automation. 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CES task model with complementary tasks; a fixed stock of inputs reallocated from automated to unautomated tasks; input to automated tasks approximated as infinite (very cheap, very large AI inputs), so finite AI input would reduce the effect; about 90% of tasks automated (f = 0.1 unautomated) within less than ten years; substitution parameter ρ = −2 between tasks, below the range of −1.2 to −0.14 the authors cite as plausible for capital and labour.", "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Disputes the premise that partial automation cannot produce explosive growth, by modelling a fast transition with complementary tasks; disputes the premise that regulation of AI training or deployment will keep tasks unautomated for long enough to hold growth down." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (re-tiered on 2026-10-25). A scholarly review with an economist author: Tamay Besiroglu held an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge before the text, as his own site says in a capture of 2021-09-15 and his MIT FutureTech profile states (degree of 2020); MIT FutureTech is his affiliation on the v2 title page. This reverses the tier-2 borderline settled on 2026-10-11, whose premise, that neither author was shown to be an economist, did not hold.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g04-hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence-c", "subject": "hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "unautomated-tasks-bottleneck-growth", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence” (2000-08-19) contests G04. In the paper's example, a residue of human-only jobs lengthens the economic doubling time from 18 to 27 months, against 16 years without machine intelligence: growth stays far above historical rates.", "time": { "date": "2000-08-19", "kind": "event", "note": "The file carries no date (PDF creation metadata 2000-06-22; Berkeley address). Dated by the earliest retrieved capture, which attests the wording (maintainer decision 2026-10-09)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Reclassified from bears-on in the correction pass (audits B and C).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g04-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-08-19", "note": "Capture of the PDF (PDF metadata: created 2000-06-22). No earlier capture was retrieved: year-only Wayback requests for this URL and for hanson.berkeley.edu/aigrow.pdf found none, and the CDX index was unavailable during retrieval, so an earlier capture is not excluded." }, "claimed": { "date": "1998", "note": "Author's own citation in the December 2000 paper. The PDF gives the author's Berkeley address; his vita lists a Berkeley postdoc in 1997–1999 and a George Mason post from 1999. The 1998 wording was not retrieved." }, "conditions": "Product shares fixed; human-only jobs keep a share of 0.05 of output in the example.", "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "A model result under fixed product shares (Cobb-Douglas form); it does not argue against the premise that unautomated tasks are strong complements." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located", "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). 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The inelastic case of the same model: growth converges to that of the slowest input.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\"; title page \"September 1, 2015\". NBER Working Paper 21547 carries \"September 2015\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(Second passage) The supply-side case of the same model (section VII), with information capital and labour as poor substitutes.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g04-a", "evidence-ec-g04-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2016-08-09", "note": "Capture of the Cowles PDF." }, "conditions": "(G04-a) Elasticity of substitution between information and other inputs or goods below one. (G04-b) Elasticity of substitution between information capital and labour below one.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). 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Economists in a core economics series: NBER Working Paper; chapter in an NBER volume (University of Chicago Press).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g05-clancy-besiroglu-2023-great-inflection-c", "subject": "clancy-besiroglu-2023-great-inflection", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "other-constraints-prevent-explosive-growth", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Clancy and Besiroglu, “The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth” (2023-06) contests G05. Speaker: Tamay Besiroglu. Besiroglu sets three conditions a resource bottleneck must meet (vital, hard to substitute, impossible to expand by an order of magnitude); he also argues that experiments can be parallelised and that regulation faces strong incentives to be bypassed.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Page: \"Published June 2023\". 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On regulation the same turn says only that its effect \"is plausible, but I'm not confident it will\" keep growth near historical rates.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g05-f" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2023-12-23", "note": "Only retrieved capture." }, "claimed": { "date": "2023", "note": "\"back-and-forths ... in spring of 2023\"; the original exchange was not retrieved and the published dialogue may be edited." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Gives reasons in the same turn against the premises that resource limits and experiment times bind." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (unchanged). Magazine debate (Asterisk). The magazine introduces Matt Clancy as an economist and Tamay Besiroglu as a research scientist. 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Responds to a list of bottlenecks (regulation, materials, physical experiments, human adjustment, fundamental limits) with incentives to remove them, past 10% catch-up growth and 30% growth of individual businesses.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-06-25", "kind": "event", "note": "Page: \"Published June 25, 2021\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Davidson's appendix puts about 25% on such a bottleneck preventing explosive growth. G04/G05 boundary (2026-10-10): kept under G05 because Davidson responds to bottlenecks offered against explosive growth from AI that substitutes for labour; the list also includes regulation and human adjustment, which may act on the pace of automation. The cross-family check of 2026-10-25 read the surrounding objection and response in the 2021-07-02 capture: the objection lists limits that act on automation and limits that remain after full automation (material extraction and transport, physical experiments, fundamental limits), so the response bears on G05, though not on G05 alone.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g05-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2021-07-02", "note": "Earliest retrieved capture." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Disputes the premise that any one listed bottleneck is certain to bind, while granting \"some chance\" that one does." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located-tier-2", "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (unchanged). Research report by an author with no economics appointment, degree, address or affiliation shown in or near the text and no established record as an economist; the report says it is written to be accessible to non-economists. Under the 2026-10-11 rule the venue does not decide; the author does.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g05-erdil-besiroglu-2023-explosive-growth-review-c", "subject": "erdil-besiroglu-2023-explosive-growth-review", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "other-constraints-prevent-explosive-growth", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Erdil and Besiroglu, “Explosive growth from AI automation: A review of the arguments” (2023-10-01) contests G05. 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The introduction states the conversation \"is based on a series of back-and-forths Matt and Tamay had in spring of 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The quotation is a turn by Matt Clancy in a dialogue. An observation, not a formal test. He adds that AI is \"pretty likely to boost growth\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g06-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2023-12-23", "note": "Only retrieved capture." }, "claimed": { "date": "2023", "note": "\"back-and-forths ... in spring of 2023\"; the original exchange was not retrieved and the published dialogue may be edited." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (unchanged). Magazine debate (Asterisk). The magazine introduces Matt Clancy as an economist and Tamay Besiroglu as a research scientist. 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(G06-b) Nordhaus reports two of seven tests positive for Singularity; he concludes that it is \"not near\", not that the data show no sign of approach. Under the literal criterion (\"no sign yet\") the record bears on G06.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). Economist (Yale) in a core economics series: Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper and NBER Working Paper; journal version in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g07-hanson-1994-if-uploads-come-first-a", "subject": "hanson-1994-if-uploads-come-first", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "machine-substitution-lowers-wages", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn” (1994-03-08) articulates G07. If brain emulations can be copied cheaply and selection favours those willing to work for little, copying continues until wages approach subsistence. Names human wages explicitly, for the period in which the upload population expands.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1994-03-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Date line on the web reprint; the page states the article \"originally appeared in Extropy 6:2 (1994)\". The printed issue was not retrieved." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Dated 1994 on the reprint; the earliest retrieved wording is the 1998 capture. (Second passage) Audit B.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g07-a", "evidence-ec-g07-a2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "1998-02-20", "note": "Earliest retrieved capture of the web reprint (hanson.berkeley.edu). The printed 1994 wording was not compared." }, "conditions": "Uploads can be copied fast and cheaply; values evolve under selection; copying is not forcibly prevented.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located-tier-2" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (changed from 1 under the maintainer decision of 2026-10-12: an author's standing as an economist is judged when the text was written). An essay in a magazine (Extropy 6:2, 1994), scholarly in form (abstract, numbered notes, references), that argues an economic model of wages and population; but in 1994 the author held no economics degree or appointment, and no economics affiliation is shown on the page. His later record as an economist does not count for this text.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g07-hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence-a", "subject": "hanson-economic-growth-given-machine-intelligence", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "machine-substitution-lowers-wages", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Economic Growth Given Machine Intelligence” (2000-08-19) articulates G07. In the paper's model, wages first rise and later fall at the rate of computer price declines, while growth rates rise. States the extreme case of the model's wage path.", "time": { "date": "2000-08-19", "kind": "event", "note": "The file carries no date (PDF creation metadata 2000-06-22; Berkeley address). Dated by the earliest retrieved capture, which attests the wording (maintainer decision 2026-10-09)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The paper adds that falling wages \"may be consistent with a rapidly rising per-capita income for humans\" if humans keep a share of capital.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g07-b", "evidence-ec-g07-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-08-19", "note": "Capture of the PDF (PDF metadata: created 2000-06-22). No earlier capture was retrieved: year-only Wayback requests for this URL and for hanson.berkeley.edu/aigrow.pdf found none, and the CDX index was unavailable during retrieval, so an earlier capture is not excluded." }, "claimed": { "date": "1998", "note": "Author's own citation in the December 2000 paper. The PDF gives the author's Berkeley address; his vita lists a Berkeley postdoc in 1997–1999 and a George Mason post from 1999. 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A polar case of his model with heterogeneous labour; skilled labour, an imperfect substitute, fares differently.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\"; title page \"September 1, 2015\". NBER Working Paper 21547 carries \"September 2015\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Added in the correction pass (audit C).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g07-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2016-08-09", "note": "Capture of the Cowles PDF." }, "conditions": "Unskilled labour a perfect substitute for information capital; skilled labour highly but imperfectly substitutable.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). 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The GDP effect after an assumed investment response; under the investment assumptions of earlier automation the upper bound rises to 1.6–1.8%.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-04-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Title page \"April 5, 2024\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(Second passage) The figure is a level effect over ten years, not an annual growth rate.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g08-a", "evidence-ec-g08-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2025-01-06", "note": "Only retrieved capture of the PDF." }, "conditions": "Task-based model; cost savings at the task level; existing estimates of exposure (about 4.6% of tasks affected within ten years) and of cost savings (15.4%).", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). Economist (MIT Economics, author-hosted PDF) writing for a core economics venue: prepared for Economic Policy; NBER Working Paper 32487; journal version in Economic Policy.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g09-acemoglu-2024-simple-macroeconomics-of-ai-b", "subject": "acemoglu-2024-simple-macroeconomics-of-ai", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "explosive-growth-estimates", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Acemoglu, “The Simple Macroeconomics of AI” (2024-04-05) bears on G09. Compares his ten-year estimate with larger forecasts. A footnote cites Davidson (2021) among those who expect \"explosive\" growth.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-04-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Title page \"April 5, 2024\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The record documents what the text says; it does not establish that the argument or model is right.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g09-i" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2025-01-06", "note": "Only retrieved capture of the PDF." }, "missing": "Concerns the next ten years and current AI; does not assess explosive growth this century.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). Economist (MIT Economics, author-hosted PDF) writing for a core economics venue: prepared for Economic Policy; NBER Working Paper 32487; journal version in Economic Policy.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g09-clancy-besiroglu-2023-great-inflection-a", "subject": "clancy-besiroglu-2023-great-inflection", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "explosive-growth-estimates", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Clancy and Besiroglu, “The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth” (2023-06) articulates G09. Speakers: Tamay Besiroglu; Matt Clancy. Besiroglu's estimate conditional on AI automating the vast majority of tasks. In his closing turn he gives 25–75% \"conditional on AGI\". He separately puts the development of such AI this century at about 80%; he does not combine the figures. Clancy's estimate on the same condition, with \"most of that probability clustered around the low end of explosive growth\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Page: \"Published June 2023\". The introduction states the conversation \"is based on a series of back-and-forths Matt and Tamay had in spring of 2023\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) The quotation is a turn by Tamay Besiroglu in a dialogue. Same passage as Besiroglu's passage quoted under G01; counted once towards the quotation limit. Added in the correction pass (maintainer decision on G09, 2026-10-09). (Second passage) The quotation is a turn by Matt Clancy in a dialogue. Same passage as the second passage of Clancy's contesting record under G01; counted once towards the quotation limit. 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Magazine debate (Asterisk). The magazine introduces Matt Clancy as an economist and Tamay Besiroglu as a research scientist. Judgement recorded: no turn is itself a substantive scholarly argument; each answers the previous turn and argues by verbal sketches of others' models, with no model or derivation of its own, so the debate rule applies to both speakers.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g09-davidson-2021-explosive-economic-growth-a", "subject": "davidson-2021-explosive-economic-growth", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "explosive-growth-estimates", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Davidson, “Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?” (2021-06-25) articulates G09. Explosive growth is defined in the report as more than 30% annual growth of gross world product. Follows: \"On a different day my probability of explosive growth by 2100 might be as low as 15% or as high as 60%.\"", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-06-25", "kind": "event", "note": "Page: \"Published June 25, 2021\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(Second passage) From the appendix on how the author decides his overall probability; it qualifies the abstract’s judgement.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g09-d", "evidence-ec-g09-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2021-07-02", "note": "Earliest retrieved capture." }, "conditions": "Explosive growth defined as >30% annual GWP growth; horizon 2100.", "estimates": [ { "conditional": false, "conditions": "Overall judgement across the report's models and objections.", "definition": "more than 30% annual growth of gross world product", "holder": "Tom Davidson", "horizon": "by 2100 (from June 2021)", "value": "\"plausible but far from certain\"; >10% (Appendix G); \"as low as 15% or as high as 60%\" on different days" } ], "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (unchanged). Research report by an author with no economics appointment, degree, address or affiliation shown in or near the text and no established record as an economist; the report says it is written to be accessible to non-economists. Under the 2026-10-11 rule the venue does not decide; the author does.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g09-erdil-besiroglu-2023-explosive-growth-review-a", "subject": "erdil-besiroglu-2023-explosive-growth-review", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "explosive-growth-estimates", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Erdil and Besiroglu, “Explosive growth from AI automation: A review of the arguments” (2023-10-01) articulates G09. The authors' unconditional estimate. The same paragraph says high confidence \"seems unwarranted\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-10-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of v2, the checked version. arXiv submission history (2026 capture of the abstract page): v1 2023-09-20, v2 2023-10-01, v3 2024-07-15." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Definition corrected after the cross-family check.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g09-f" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2023-10-01", "note": "Version 2 (2023-10-01) is the earliest retrieved version; v1 has no capture. The v2 PDF itself was captured in 2025." }, "claimed": { "date": "2023-09-20", "note": "Date of v1, which was not retrieved." }, "conditions": "Explosive growth defined in the paper as annual real GWP exceeding 130% of its maximum value over all previous years (about ten times growth rates typical of today's frontier economies).", "estimates": [ { "conditional": false, "conditions": "The same paragraph says high confidence \"seems unwarranted\".", "definition": "annual real gross world product exceeding 130% of its maximum over all previous years", "holder": "Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu", "horizon": "by the end of this century (from October 2023)", "value": "about even odds of widespread automation and subsequent explosive growth" } ], "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (re-tiered on 2026-10-25). A scholarly review with an economist author: Tamay Besiroglu held an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge before the text, as his own site says in a capture of 2021-09-15 and his MIT FutureTech profile states (degree of 2020); MIT FutureTech is his affiliation on the v2 title page. This reverses the tier-2 borderline settled on 2026-10-11, whose premise, that neither author was shown to be an economist, did not hold.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-g09-hanson-2000-long-term-growth-exponential-modes-a", "subject": "hanson-2000-long-term-growth-exponential-modes", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "explosive-growth-estimates", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Hanson, “Long-Term Growth As A Sequence of Exponential Modes” (2000-12) articulates G09. The next sentences point to falling computer hardware costs, predicted machine substitution for most human labour, and his own model of growth with robots. Links the forecast to machine substitution for labour, citing his own 1998 paper (G01-a).", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Title page: \"December, 2000 / First Version September 1998\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(Second passage) A self-citation. The sentence reports a model result and is not itself a forecast.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g09-a", "evidence-ec-g09-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-11-28", "note": "Earliest retrieved capture of the PDF (PDF created 2001-02-06)." }, "claimed": { "date": "1998-09", "note": "\"First Version September 1998\" on the title page; the 1998 wording was not retrieved." }, "conditions": "\"if one takes seriously the model of economic growth as a series of exponential growth modes, and if relative change parameters of a new transition are likely to be similar to such parameters describing old transitions\".", "estimates": [ { "conditional": true, "conditions": "If the series-of-modes model is taken seriously and a new transition resembles past ones.", "definition": "a new growth mode with a doubling time of roughly two weeks or less", "holder": "Robin Hanson", "horizon": "within the next century (from December 2000)", "value": "\"hard to escape the conclusion that the world economy could see a very dramatic change\"" } ], "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 1 (unchanged). 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Dated by the earliest retrieved capture, which attests the wording (maintainer decision 2026-10-09)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Same passage as the one quoted under G03; counted once towards the quotation limit. Added in the correction pass (audit C). The author adds that the prediction \"has large uncertainties\". The sentence reports the author’s separate, self-cited projection (Hanson, 1998), used to argue that the model’s predictions should not be rejected out of hand; it is not an estimate the text makes afresh. It held the tier-1 earliest-located role from 2026-10-10 to 2026-10-25; the role is now withheld.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g09-0" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-08-19", "note": "Capture of the PDF (PDF metadata: created 2000-06-22). No earlier capture was retrieved: year-only Wayback requests for this URL and for hanson.berkeley.edu/aigrow.pdf found none, and the CDX index was unavailable during retrieval, so an earlier capture is not excluded." }, "claimed": { "date": "1998", "note": "Author's own citation in the December 2000 paper. The PDF gives the author's Berkeley address; his vita lists a Berkeley postdoc in 1997–1999 and a George Mason post from 1999. 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The same comment says he independently holds that transformative AI \"could plausibly be developed in the next couple of decades\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2020-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Comment timestamp \"June 15, 2020 at 10:44 am\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Same passage as the one quoted under G03; counted once towards the quotation limit.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-g09-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2020-06-23", "note": "Capture of the post with its comments; comments are absent from the 2022 page." }, "estimates": [ { "conditional": false, "conditions": "Tentative agreement with Roodman's themes; the same comment says transformative AI \"could plausibly be developed in the next couple of decades\".", "definition": "not defined in the comment", "holder": "Holden Karnofsky", "horizon": "the coming decades (from June 2020)", "value": "\"little reason to 'rule out' explosive growth\"" } ], "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located-tier-2" ], "tier": { "basis": "Tier 2 (unchanged). 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The abstract distinguishes cases where automated prediction automates decisions from cases where it enhances human decisions.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019", "kind": "event", "note": "AEA article page. 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The editors treat automation as the third of three AI concepts and note that much empirical work on AI uses factory-robot data, while distinguishing automation from AI itself.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\"; \"Conference Date: September 13–14, 2017\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Definitional framing in an introduction; most chapters, the editors say, focus on AI as prediction technology.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-22" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Treats task automation as one possible consequence of AI, not as AI's economic effect.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m02-autor-2015-why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs-a", "subject": "autor-2015-why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-as-task-automation", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Autor, “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation” (2015) articulates M02. Autor describes automation as computers substituting for workers in routine, codifiable tasks while complementing workers in non-routine tasks.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015", "kind": "event", "note": "AEA article page: vol. 29, no. 3, Summer 2015. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Abstract page only; the full article was not retrieved (see autor2015.failure.json). Dated 2015; the abstract does not say whether the task framework is applied to AI specifically.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-09" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "JEP (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m02-calvano-et-al-2020-algorithmic-pricing-collusion-b", "subject": "calvano-et-al-2020-algorithmic-pricing-collusion", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-as-task-automation", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Calvano et al., “Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion” (2020-10) bears on M02. The abstract motivates the study by algorithms replacing human pricing decisions.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2020-10", "kind": "event", "note": "AEA article page. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Abstract page only; motivating statement, not a task-framework model.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-24" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "No task framework allocating tasks between capital and labour; focus is collusion, not labour.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "AER (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m02-cowen-2019-neglected-open-questions-b", "subject": "cowen-2019-neglected-open-questions", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-as-task-automation", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Cowen, “Neglected Open Questions in the Economics of Artificial Intelligence” (2019-05) bears on M02. Cowen characterises the recent literature as focused on capital-for-labour substitution and its domestic labour-market effects, then turns to neglected questions.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\". 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The authors deliberately do not classify exposure as automation versus augmentation.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-17", "kind": "event", "note": "arXiv: submitted 17 Mar 2023 (v1); last revised 21 Aug 2023 (v5). Version v1 retrieved. Not peer-reviewed in this version. The v1 PDF itself is dated 20 March 2023. A later peer-reviewed version (Science, 2024) was not retrieved. 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Extending the Autor-Levy-Murnane task model, the authors argue that machine learning lets computer capital substitute for labour in non-routine as well as routine tasks, limited only by perception/manipulation, creative and social-intelligence bottlenecks.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-09-17", "kind": "event", "note": "Title page \"September 17, 2013\". Journal version in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2017) not retrieved. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Oxford Martin School working paper dated September 17, 2013 (file served by the Oxford Martin School CDN); not the later journal version (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017), whose wording may differ.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-08" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Computer capital supplied perfectly elastically at a falling price; workers reallocate by comparative advantage.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "Scholarly working paper with an economist author: Frey, an economic historian at the Oxford Martin School (D2, 2026-10-11, confirmed); Osborne is an engineer.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m02-leontief-duchin-1984-impacts-of-automation-b", "subject": "leontief-duchin-1984-impacts-of-automation", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-as-task-automation", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Leontief and Duchin, “The Impacts of Automation on Employment, 1963–2000. Final Report” (1984-04) bears on M02. Speaker: Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin (economists). Introduces the chapter's procedures for representing computer-based technologies in capital, input and labour coefficients. Projecting managerial labour coefficients under office automation. Overview before estimating robot stocks and displacement.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1984-04", "kind": "event", "note": "ERIC résumé: \"Apr 84\". Published in book form as The Future Impact of Automation on Workers (Oxford University Press, 1986; not retrieved). Chapters 4 and 5 were drafted by other members of the Institute (Howell; McDonough), per the report; the record attributes the report to Leontief and Duchin as its authors. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Matches the cached .txt. Locator tightened on 2026-10-12 from \"ch. 4 'The Automation of Production Operations', sect. A Introduction, printed p. 4.1-4.2\" (GPT cross-family check of 2026-10-12, accepted by the maintainer on 2026-10-12; the page was confirmed on a page image of the scan, not in the OCR text). (Second passage) Checked against the raw djvu text (.html); the cached .txt extraction omits this stretch. (Third passage) Matches the cached .txt. Locator tightened on 2026-10-12 from \"ch. 4, 'Robotics', overview of the technology, printed pp. 4.19-4.21\" (GPT cross-family check of 2026-10-12, accepted by the maintainer on 2026-10-12; the page was confirmed on a page image of the scan, not in the OCR text).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-04", "evidence-ec-m02-05", "evidence-ec-m02-06" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "(M02-04) Labour savings 'of particular significance' for banking, insurance, legal services and government. (M02-05) 'certain' tasks. The passage adds that fewer managers will be needed as integrated office systems reduce clerical staff. (M02-06) Supported by the Robot Institute of America definition, quoted by the authors.", "missing": "(M02-04) Task language without a task-allocation model; the model works through input-output labour coefficients by occupation and sector. Computers, not AI. (M02-05) Software replacing decision-making tasks of managers, stated descriptively; no task-allocation framework, not AI. (M02-06) Robots taking over tasks previously done only by humans, in prose; the model represents this as labour displacement rates per robot in six production occupations, not a task framework. 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Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Whether Newhouse counts as an economist at this date is not established from this text; only the byline and staff listing are visible. Matches the cached .txt.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "The sentence begins 'the most vulnerable occupations are' (OCR garbles the following comma) 'as might be expected'. Case examples follow: bookkeepers at one branch bank fell from 600 to 150 within eighteen months.", "missing": "Identifies the occupations most vulnerable to electronic data processing (EDP) through case studies. It is occupational, not a task-allocation model, and concerns EDP, not AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Economist by established record: B.A. and Ph.D. in economics, Harvard (Harvard Kennedy School faculty page, retrieved 2026-10-11). The 1966 text shows only the byline \"Harvard University\", so his standing at that date is not shown in the text.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m02-nourse-1955-automation-hearings-statement-b", "subject": "nourse-1955-automation-hearings-statement", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-as-task-automation", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Nourse, “Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-28) bears on M02. Speaker: Edwin G. Nourse, former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (economist). Nourse locates the 'real change' in electronic devices that remove the need for human judgement in process control.", "time": { "date": "1955-10-28", "kind": "event", "note": "Hearing day of the statement, as printed. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The quote begins mid-sentence because 'pos¬sible' is broken by a non-standard OCR hyphen. Matches the cached .txt.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-01" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "'to considerable extent'; limited to control of continuous production processes.", "missing": "Describes machines taking over the mental element of control work, but not within a framework that allocates tasks between capital and labour, and not as AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Prepared statement by an economist (former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, shown in the text); a substantive argued statement. 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Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 18629, dated December 2012, revised January 2013; a highly stylised two-period OLG model, not an empirical estimate or forecast.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-07" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2013-01", "note": "The cover lists \"December 2012, January 2013\"; the retrieved PDF may be the January 2013 revision, so its wording is attested from 2013-01 only." }, "missing": "Substitution is between factors (machines and unskilled labour) in a CES function, not machines taking over tasks within a task framework.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue); both authors economists.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m02-technology-and-the-american-economy-1966-b", "subject": "technology-and-the-american-economy-1966", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-as-task-automation", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, “Technology and the American Economy: Report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, Volume I” (1966-02) bears on M02. Speaker: Howard R. Bowen, Commission chairman (economist), chairman's introduction (not part of the official report). Bowen's view of where technology should go: towards human, environmental and resource development, with new kinds of work and more leisure.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1966-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Report dated February 1966. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv) is stated not to be part of the official report. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Programmatic statement in a non-official introduction. Checked against the raw djvu text (.html) only. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv) is expressly outside the official report; it stays under the report's source at tier 2 (maintainer decision, 2026-10-12).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m02-02" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Followed by: 'Human resources will be released and available for new activities beyond those that are required for mere subsistence.'.", "missing": "Divides work into routine/mechanical (machines) and new human activities, but without a task-allocation model and not about AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Main Commission report: tier 2 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12 (most members were not economists; the chair Bowen and Solow were). Was tier 1. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv, by Bowen) is outside the official report; it stays here at tier 2 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12.", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m03-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2018-economic-policy-for-ai-a", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2018-economic-policy-for-ai", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-general-purpose-technology-with-lag", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence” (2018-06) articulates M03. Following the preceding paragraph's point that GPT co-invention \"is costly and slow\", infers that AI's productivity impact will lag, citing Brynjolfsson, Rock and Syverson.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"June 2018\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 24690, June 2018. The complementary-investment premise is in the immediately preceding paragraph.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m03-06" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m03-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-ambiguous-labor-market-impact-b", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-ambiguous-labor-market-impact", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-general-purpose-technology-with-lag", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction” (2019-02) bears on M03. The authors call AI a general-purpose technology because prediction is an input into decisions across many occupations.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"February 2019\". Journal version: JEP 33(2), 2019, pp. 31–50 (abstract page jep2019-agg). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "GPT label only.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m03-07" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "No statement that measured productivity gains lag adoption.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m03-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction-b", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-general-purpose-technology-with-lag", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Introduction to \"The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda\"” (2019-05) bears on M03. The editors summarise Brynjolfsson, Rock and Syverson (chapter 1), who argue AI is a GPT and attribute low measured productivity growth mainly to implementation lags from missing complementary innovations.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\"; \"Conference Date: September 13–14, 2017\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Editors' report of another chapter's argument (Brynjolfsson, Rock and Syverson), not the editors' own claim; cite chapter 1 directly for the proposition.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m03-08" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "The GPT-plus-lag conjunction is attributed to chapter 1's authors; the introduction only reports it.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m03-brynjolfsson-rock-syverson-2017-productivity-paradox-a", "subject": "brynjolfsson-rock-syverson-2017-productivity-paradox", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-general-purpose-technology-with-lag", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Brynjolfsson, Rock, Syverson, “Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics” (2017-11) articulates M03. Argues that implementation lags, rather than false hopes, mismeasurement or redistribution, are the likeliest main explanation of the gap between AI expectations and slowing measured productivity. Concludes that AI breakthroughs have not yet diffused and their complementary changes depress measured productivity at first; the same conclusion calls AI the core of \"a new, economically important potential GPT\".", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2017\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER Working Paper 24001, November 2017 (NBER conference paper; later published in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence). The authors present lags as the likely biggest contributor, not the only one. (Second passage) NBER Working Paper 24001, November 2017 (NBER conference paper; later published in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m03-01", "evidence-ec-m03-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m03-brynjolfsson-rock-syverson-2017-productivity-paradox-b", "subject": "brynjolfsson-rock-syverson-2017-productivity-paradox", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-general-purpose-technology-with-lag", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Brynjolfsson, Rock, Syverson, “Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics” (2017-11) bears on M03. Formalises how unmeasured intangible AI-complementary investment first depresses and later inflates measured productivity growth.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2017\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 24001, November 2017 (NBER conference paper; later published in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence). 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Notes that existing automation models (here Acemoglu and Restrepo 2017) rely on tasks that only labour can perform, and offers a prediction-based approach instead.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"January 2018\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 24243, January 2018. Characterises another paper; a footnote adds that Acemoglu and Restrepo's model is designed for a different question.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-26" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Identifies and questions the new-tasks assumption in existing models but does not itself model machines performing all tasks.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m05-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-ambiguous-labor-market-impact-b", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-ambiguous-labor-market-impact", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "machines-cheaper-at-every-task", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction” (2019-02) bears on M05. The authors deny that current machine learning amounts to general intelligence able to substitute for all of human cognition.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"February 2019\". Journal version: JEP 33(2), 2019, pp. 31–50 (abstract page jep2019-agg). 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Speakers: Paul Armer, The RAND Corporation (computer specialist; not an economist), in a selection from a study prepared for the Commission; Paul Armer, The RAND Corporation, relaying Herbert A. Simon. Armer adopts Herbert A. Simon's distinction (The Shape of Automation, 1965) between technological and economic radicalism. Armer cites Simon, The Shape of Automation (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), as the source of the technological/economic radical-conservative distinction.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1966", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the book; Armer (RAND Corporation) is a computer specialist, not an economist. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Appears in an economics volume and a Commission appendix study, but the author is not an economist. Matches the cached .txt. 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Speaker: Paul Armer, The RAND Corporation (non-economist). Armer combines technological radicalism (computers able in time to do any information-processing task) with economic conservatism.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1966", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the book; Armer (RAND Corporation) is a computer specialist, not an economist. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Non-economist. Matches the cached .txt. From the Prentice-Hall condensation, whose editors say deletions were not marked and bridging words were inserted; Armer's original study in the Commission's Appendix Vol. I was not retrieved. 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Speaker: UAW-CIO report (Economic and Collective Bargaining Conference, 12 November 1954), submitted for the record by Walter P. Reuther, president, CIO (non-economist witness). The UAW report collects predictions of rapid automation to argue for an expanding economy built on broad purchasing power.", "time": { "date": "1955-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Hearings held October 14–28, 1955. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Second-hand relay of unnamed economists through a union document. Non-economist witness (2 of 2 recorded). Matches the cached .txt.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-01" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Attributed to 'another economist'. It is conditional on the preceding claim that, if expenditure on automating industrial facilities kept rising, 'American industry may be fully automated within a decade'. That claim rests on figures from 'a prominent Harvard economist', also unnamed.", "missing": "A relayed prediction of a fivefold labour saving, not machines performing all tasks. The economist is unnamed.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Witnesses who are not economists (named per passage).", "value": 2 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m05-autor-2015-why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs-c", "subject": "autor-2015-why-are-there-still-so-many-jobs", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "machines-cheaper-at-every-task", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Autor, “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation” (2015) contests M05. Reflecting on AI and robotics, Autor expects workers to keep a comparative advantage in problem-solving, adaptability and creativity, against commentators who 'overstate the extent of machine substitution'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015", "kind": "event", "note": "AEA article page: vol. 29, no. 3, Summer 2015. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Abstract page only; same passage as the M02 record. Whether the full article addresses the all-tasks scenario cannot be judged from the abstract.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-17" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "States that workers retain a comparative advantage in some tasks without, in the abstract, analysing the premise that machines could become cheaper at all tasks." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "JEP (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m05-benzell-et-al-2015-robots-are-us-b", "subject": "benzell-et-al-2015-robots-are-us", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "machines-cheaper-at-every-task", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Benzell et al., “Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement” (2015-02) bears on M05. The model splits output into an automatable good produced by capital and code and a non-automatable service ('prayer') produced only by labour; the introduction (pdf p. 3) says it is 'hard to think of hitherto human tasks that smart machines can't already or won't soon do'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"February 2015, Revised October 2018\". The retrieved PDF is the October 2018 revision, so its wording is attested from 2018-10 only. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 20941, February 2015, revised October 2018; quoted wording is from the 2018 revision and may not match the 2015 version. Two-good, two-period OLG simulation model, not a forecast. The introduction's remark is rhetoric; the model itself keeps a labour-only sector.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-30" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2018-10", "note": "Revision date on the cover of the retrieved PDF; the February 2015 wording was not retrieved." }, "conditions": "Corn produced with capital and code; prayer produced with high- and low-tech labour only.", "missing": "The model keeps a non-automatable labour-only sector, so machines do not perform all tasks; new tasks are not modelled.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m05-buckingham-1955-automation-hearings-statement-b", "subject": "buckingham-1955-automation-hearings-statement", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "machines-cheaper-at-every-task", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Buckingham, “Statement (testifying as an economist), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-14) bears on M05. Speaker: Walter S. Buckingham Jr., associate professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (economist). Buckingham says this picture 'has charged the imagination of some and struck terror in the hearts of others', and that it too is called automation. He then complains of a 'flood of verbiage' lacking quantitative evidence.", "time": { "date": "1955-10-14", "kind": "event", "note": "Hearing day of the statement, as printed; the volume was printed by the GPO in 1955. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Do not present as Buckingham's view. Later (p. 35) he sees no reason to fear long-run mass unemployment. Checked against the raw djvu text (.html) only.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-02" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Attributed to 'scientists, computer manufacturers, and science fiction writers', who have shown it 'hypothetically at least'. 'chain or products' is as printed in the OCR.", "missing": "A reported speculation, not Buckingham's own claim; it concerns one enterprise working without labour, not machines performing every task, including new ones, more cheaply than people.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Prepared statement by an economist (\"as an economist\", associate professor at Georgia Tech, shown in the text); a substantive argued statement. 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He addresses the prospect of long-run mass unemployment from automation and rejects it: automation will be limited to industries employing about 25 per cent of the labour force, and it creates new jobs whose training delays young people's entry into work.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "The next sentence qualifies it: there is 'no automatic regulator in the economic system that guarantees full employment', and the gains need continued expansion. 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Names the 'prophets of cybernation' and answers them by pointing to unmet work needs, many suitable for unskilled workers.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-09" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Made in support of government-supported (not make-work) job creation for those who cannot find private employment.", "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Levitan argues for unmet human-service and public-work demand against cybernation employment-obsolescence claims." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ], "tier": { "basis": "Economist author (Sar A. 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In the accelerationist case of the model, information capital substitutes so well for labour that all income eventually accrues to capital owners, the reverse of Keynes's 'euthanasia of the rentier'. Nordhaus states that the Singularity would require AI to 'encompass all human activities' and notes that non-routine tasks change in response to AI, leaving immunity of other tasks 'an open question'. Nordhaus quotes Simon's 1965 statement of technological radicalism and contrasts it with Simon's moderate productivity expectation. Nordhaus reports that Simon, despite his capability forecast, did not expect accelerating productivity growth.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"September 2015\". 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(Second passage) NBER Working Paper 21547, September 2015 (version dated September 1, 2015); not pre-2015. (Third passage) Relay: Simon's wording as quoted by Nordhaus (2015) with page references to The Shape of Automation (1965). The 1965 original was not retrieved, so this is not Simon's checked wording. Armer (1966) relays the same forecast (his passage recorded as bearing on M05). (Fourth passage) The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. A Simon quotation (1965, p. xiii) relayed by Nordhaus (2015), not Nordhaus's own claim. 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Nourse contrasts the 'preponderant attitude of business executives' with labour officials' concerns and goes on to side with labour's call for study (p. 621).", "time": { "date": "1955-10-28", "kind": "event", "note": "Hearing day of the statement, as printed. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Endorses a long-run historical generalisation with explicit short-run qualifications. Matches the cached .txt. 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A footnote on p. xi says the introduction was 'written by the Chairman at the request of the Commission but is not part of the official report'. Checked against the raw djvu text (.html); the cached .txt omits pp. xi-3. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv) is expressly outside the official report; it stays under the report's source at tier 2 (maintainer decision, 2026-10-12).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m05-10" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "The ellipsis omits 'technological change would in the near future not only cause increasing unemployment, but that'.", "missing": "A reported fear, not endorsed. It does not speak of new tasks or relative cost.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Main Commission report: tier 2 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12 (most members were not economists; the chair Bowen and Solow were). Was tier 1. 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Concludes the Commission's opening argument that persistent post-Korea unemployment came from inadequate demand, not accelerated technology.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1966-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Report dated February 1966. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv) is stated not to be part of the official report. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Corporate (Commission) text reflecting 'combined judgment and general agreement' (letter of transmittal). Individual members' footnoted comments are separate. Checked against the raw djvu text (.html); the cached .txt omits this page. The Bowen and Mangum condensation (1966, p. 8) has 'The Commission dissents from this view.' Holds the tier-2 earliest-located role for contests of M05 (2026-10-12). The second passage has the same source and date and comes later in the report (p. 9). Armer (his passage recorded as contesting M05, tier 2) is dated only to 1966, in a condensation that postdates the February 1966 report. (Second passage) Matches the cached .txt. Engagement (first passage): (GPT cross-family check of 2026-10-12, accepted by the maintainer on 2026-10-12.) The Commission states the extreme view of productivity making gainful employment obsolete and dissents, saying 'the evidence does not support it' and it 'diverts attention from the real problems'. Engagement (second passage): (GPT cross-family check of 2026-10-12, accepted by the maintainer on 2026-10-12.) Asserts that technical progress leaves the total of work in place, so the employment outcome depends on demand policy. 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The authors estimate occupations' susceptibility to computerisation by matching engineering bottleneck variables in O*NET task descriptions with a classifier trained on hand-labelled occupations. The headline estimate: 47 percent of US employment falls in occupations with high probability of computerisation.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-09-17", "kind": "event", "note": "Title page \"September 17, 2013\". Journal version in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2017) not retrieved. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Oxford Martin School working paper dated September 17, 2013 (file served by the Oxford Martin School CDN); not the later journal version (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017), whose wording may differ. (Second passage) Oxford Martin School working paper dated September 17, 2013 (file served by the Oxford Martin School CDN); not the later journal version (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017), whose wording may differ. The authors state they 'make no attempt to estimate the number of jobs that will actually be automated'; the figure is technical susceptibility over an unspecified period, not a forecast of job loss. 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Cite the original studies for the estimates.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m07-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Reports others' exposure estimates; makes no estimate of its own.", "register": "relay", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m07-pajarinen-rouvinen-2014-computerization-finnish-employment-a", "subject": "pajarinen-rouvinen-2014-computerization-finnish-employment", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "task-based-exposure-measurement", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Pajarinen and Rouvinen, “Computerization Threatens One Third of Finnish Employment” (2014-01-13) articulates M07. Pajarinen and Rouvinen apply an occupation-level susceptibility estimate to Finnish employment and compare it with the United States.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2014-01-13", "kind": "event", "note": "ETLA publication page: \"Päiväys 13.01.2014\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "ETLA Brief 22, 13 January 2014; abstract only. Material quantitative claim. The abstract states its own limits (M05-type caveat recorded separately).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m07-08" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ], "tier": { "basis": "Research brief by two economists at ETLA, an economics research institute; a short (6-page) research publication with its own estimates. 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Tier 1 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12.", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m08-acemoglu-2024-simple-macroeconomics-of-ai-a", "subject": "acemoglu-2024-simple-macroeconomics-of-ai", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-productivity-over-next-decade", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Acemoglu, “The Simple Macroeconomics of AI” (2024-04-05) articulates M08. Acemoglu applies a Hulten's-theorem task framework to exposure and cost-saving estimates to bound AI's ten-year TFP effect, against much larger forecasts (Goldman Sachs, McKinsey). Allowing for hard-to-learn tasks where AI gains are smaller lowers the ten-year TFP bound. Acemoglu converts the TFP bounds to GDP effects under two investment-response assumptions. The author-hosted version of 5 April 2024 gives no more than 0.71% over ten years, and less than 0.55% allowing for hard tasks; the NBER version of May 2024 gives 0.66% and 0.53%.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-04-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Title page of the author-hosted version: \"April 5, 2024\". The NBER version (cover \"May 2024\") gives different figures; its passages are dated May 2024 by their source." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Author-hosted version of 5 April 2024, abstract: an upper bound on total TFP over ten years. The same passage is quoted under G08 and counted once towards the quotation limit. M08 is dated by this version (2026-10-25), as G08 is. (Second passage) The same abstract’s figure after allowing for hard-to-learn tasks. (Third passage) NBER version of May 2024. Material quantitative claim: an upper bound on total (not annual) US TFP gain over 10 years from May 2024; illustrative back-of-the-envelope calculation resting on Eloundou et al. (2023) exposure, Svanberg et al. (2024) feasibility and experimental cost-saving estimates. Needs targeted recheck. This is total-factor productivity, not GDP, over ten years in total; the paper also reports an alternative of about 0.89%. The later journal version was not compared. (Fourth passage) Material quantitative claim: upper bound on total 10-year TFP gain, using 'speculative' assumptions (at most 73% easy tasks; hard-task gains about one quarter of easy). Needs targeted recheck. The figure is total TFP over ten years. (Fifth passage) Material quantitative claim: 10-year total GDP effects conditional on investment response; Acemoglu notes extra investment-driven GDP does not add to welfare. The introduction gives a lower hard-task GDP bound of 0.90%. 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(M08-06) Modest investment response (capital rising in proportion to TFP) versus an investment boom like earlier automation.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m08-brynjolfsson-rock-syverson-2017-productivity-paradox-b", "subject": "brynjolfsson-rock-syverson-2017-productivity-paradox", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-productivity-over-next-decade", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Brynjolfsson, Rock, Syverson, “Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics” (2017-11) bears on M08. Illustrates that a single AI application could add about 0.17 percentage points a year to US labour productivity growth over a decade. Second worked example showing that individual AI applications could add measurably to aggregate labour productivity over about a decade.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"November 2017\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER Working Paper 24001, November 2017 (NBER conference paper; later published in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence). Hypothetical scenario (\"Suppose\"); requires targeted recheck of figures. (Second passage) NBER Working Paper 24001, November 2017 (NBER conference paper; later published in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence). Hypothetical; requires targeted recheck of figures.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m08-02", "evidence-ec-m08-03" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "(M08-02) Assumes drivers needed for current workload fall from 3.5 million to 1.5 million out of 122 million private nonfarm employment, over a supposed 10-year transition; excludes complementary gains. (M08-03) Assumes AI handles 60–70% of calls and reduces call-centre workers (about 2.2 million in 2015) by 60%.", "missing": "(M08-02) An illustrative calculation for one AI application (autonomous vehicles), not an estimate of AI's aggregate effect. (M08-03) An illustrative calculation for one application (call centres), not an aggregate estimate.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m08-leontief-duchin-1984-impacts-of-automation-b", "subject": "leontief-duchin-1984-impacts-of-automation", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-productivity-over-next-decade", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Leontief and Duchin, “The Impacts of Automation on Employment, 1963–2000. Final Report” (1984-04) bears on M08. Speaker: Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin (economists). Headline finding of the report.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1984-04", "kind": "event", "note": "ERIC résumé: \"Apr 84\". Published in book form as The Future Impact of Automation on Workers (Oxford University Press, 1986; not retrieved). Chapters 4 and 5 were drafted by other members of the Institute (Howell; McDonough), per the report; the record attributes the report to Leontief and Duchin as its authors. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Quantitative claim; recheck figures against the printed report before use. Matches the cached .txt.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m08-01" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "conditions": "Model-based projection (dynamic input-output model, 89 sectors, 53 occupations, scenario S3). The abstract adds consumption growth of about 2% a year through the 1980s and 0.5-1.1% through the 1990s, assuming full use of the projected labour force.", "missing": "A labour-saving estimate over 20 years (to 2000), not a productivity or GDP estimate over about ten years, and it concerns computer-based automation, not AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "Report by economists (Leontief and Duchin, NYU Institute for Economic Analysis).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-acemoglu-restrepo-2016-race-between-machine-and-man-b", "subject": "acemoglu-restrepo-2016-race-between-machine-and-man", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Acemoglu and Restrepo, “The Race Between Machine and Man: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares and Employment” (2016-05) bears on M09. After citing concerns that robotics and AI will leave workers unable to compete, the authors say no comprehensive framework for these effects exists.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2016-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"May 2016, Revised June 2017\". Journal version: AER 108(6), 2018, pp. 1488–1542 (abstract page aer2018-ar). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 22252, May 2016, revised June 2017; quoted wording attested from the June 2017 revision, not necessarily the May 2016 original. Published in revised form as AER 2018. Self-description of the literature as the authors saw it; not proof of absence of earlier work.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-13" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2017-06", "note": "Revision date on the cover of the retrieved PDF; the May 2016 wording was not retrieved." }, "missing": "A single self-description of a gap in theory, not a dated record of the field; it does not say economists ignored the topic.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-acemoglu-restrepo-2018-ai-automation-and-work-b", "subject": "acemoglu-restrepo-2018-ai-automation-and-work", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Acemoglu and Restrepo, “Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work” (2018-01) bears on M09. Opens the conclusion by saying the debate on automation and the future of work lacks a satisfactory framework, which the authors blame for a false dichotomy. The authors describe two sides of the debate, alarmist predictions of the end of work and economists' reassurance from history, and reject both as a false dichotomy.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"January 2018\". Chapter in the NBER volume (2019). Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) NBER Working Paper 24196, January 2018 (NBER conference paper; later in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence). Not evidence of absence of earlier work. (Second passage) The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. NBER Working Paper 24196, January 2018 (NBER conference paper; later in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence). A characterisation by the authors of other economists' position; record as such, not as the authors' view.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-17", "evidence-ec-m09-18" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "(M09-17) Self-description of a theoretical gap about automation and work; not a dated claim about when economists took up AI. (M09-18) Describes a view the authors attribute to many economists (and reject as one side of a false dichotomy); it is not the authors' own view and not a dated record.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-acemoglu-restrepo-2019-wrong-kind-of-ai-b", "subject": "acemoglu-restrepo-2019-wrong-kind-of-ai", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Acemoglu and Restrepo, “The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand” (2019-03) bears on M09. The authors describe how economists studying AI framed it in 2019. The authors note that economics (Herbert Simon) was among the disciplines that pioneered AI in the 1950s.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"March 2019\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Characterises the framing of economists' work on AI, not its age. (Second passage) Historical aside citing Nilsson (2009); concerns the founding of AI as a field, not mainstream economics studying AI's economic effects.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-25", "evidence-ec-m09-26" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "(M09-25) Says nothing about when economists began studying AI. (M09-26) Indicates early economist participation in AI research, which complicates but does not test the recency claim.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-aghion-jones-jones-2017-ai-and-economic-growth-b", "subject": "aghion-jones-jones-2017-ai-and-economic-growth", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Aghion, Jones, Jones, “Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth” (2017-10) bears on M09. Presents the paper as agenda-setting for research on AI and growth.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"October 2017\". Chapter in the NBER Economics of AI volume (2019). 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Self-description; not evidence of absence of earlier work.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-14" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Implies the agenda is still to be shaped but does not state that the topic was neglected.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2018-economic-policy-for-ai-b", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2018-economic-policy-for-ai", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence” (2018-06) bears on M09. Summarises economists' long-run optimism on jobs while stressing short-run adjustment costs.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Cover \"June 2018\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "NBER Working Paper 24690, June 2018. The authors' characterisation of a consensus.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-23" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Characterises economists' views on AI and jobs; says nothing about when the field took up AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction-a", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Introduction to \"The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda\"” (2019-05) articulates M09. The editors open the volume by stating that economics research on AI is scarce and that existing work extrapolates from earlier technologies such as factory robots. The editors close by calling the economics of AI a new area of study and offering the volume as a starting point.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\"; \"Conference Date: September 13–14, 2017\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Explicit self-description by the volume editors (published May 2019; conference September 2017). Evidence of how the editors saw the field, not proof that earlier work was absent. Holds M09's tier-1 earliest-located role since 2026-10-12. The second passage has the same source and date; the first passage comes first in the text (p. 1). A 2019 self-description that must be read with the earlier documentary record, 1952–2015, not as proof that earlier work was absent. (Second passage) Self-description by the editors; 'new' is their framing of the field as of 2019.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-27", "evidence-ec-m09-30" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ], "tier": { "basis": "Chapter of the NBER Economics of AI volume (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction-b", "subject": "agrawal-gans-goldfarb-2019-economics-of-ai-introduction", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Agrawal, Gans, Goldfarb, “Introduction to \"The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda\"” (2019-05) bears on M09. The editors state that the NBER convened its first conference on the economics of AI in September 2017 to set a research agenda. The editors explain that the volume's growth and labour chapters are speculative because AI had not yet diffused, forcing reliance on theory or proxy technologies.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\"; \"Conference Date: September 13–14, 2017\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) The text's own statement about its own institution's event (the editors are NBER research associates); it dates an NBER conference series, not the field's first engagement with AI. The editors' statement about their own institution; \"first\" is theirs. 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Speaker: Howard R. Bowen and Garth L. Mangum, editors (Editors' Introduction). The editors explain the Commission's origins in the persistent unemployment after the Korean conflict. They define automation technically as electronic feedback control of mechanical processes, which 'in common parlance' became a byword for anything reducing employment.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1966", "kind": "event", "note": "Copyright 1966. A condensation of the Commission report with selections from the supplementary studies. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. Editors' retrospective framing (1966). 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Cowen says economists have done little work on what redistribution must mean in AI-transformed futures.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2019-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Chapter cover sheet: \"Publication Date: May 2019\". Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Self-description limited to one sub-question (redistribution of status and meaning in 'stranger futures'), not the field as a whole. 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Self-critical characterisation of the profession.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-ec-m09-16" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-14", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Criticises a habitual stance of economists rather than describing the field's engagement with AI as recent or neglected.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ], "tier": { "basis": "NBER working paper (core venue).", "value": 1 } } } }, { "id": "ec-m09-leontief-duchin-1984-impacts-of-automation-b", "subject": "leontief-duchin-1984-impacts-of-automation", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "recent-economics-engagement-with-ai", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Leontief and Duchin, “The Impacts of Automation on Employment, 1963–2000. Final Report” (1984-04) bears on M09. Speakers: Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin (economists), Institute for Economic Analysis, New York University; Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin (economists). Opening of the 1984 NSF-funded final report's abstract. Scope limitation in the report's summary chapter.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1984-04", "kind": "event", "note": "ERIC résumé: \"Apr 84\". Published in book form as The Future Impact of Automation on Workers (Oxford University Press, 1986; not retrieved). Chapters 4 and 5 were drafted by other members of the Institute (Howell; McDonough), per the report; the record attributes the report to Leontief and Duchin as its authors. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(First passage) Matches the cached .txt (authors' abstract, not the ERIC résumé). (Second passage) Matches the cached .txt. 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Mokyr, Vickers and Ziebarth survey economists' historical views on technological unemployment, moral effects of technology and stagnation, and compare them with current concerns.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015", "kind": "event", "note": "AEA article page. 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Nilsson records that he consulted economists (Leontief, Duchin, Simon, Solow) and that Solow doubted his premises; the body sets Simon's and Leontief's opposing views against each other.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1984", "kind": "event", "note": "Journal page: \"Vol. 5 No. 2: Summer 1984\". An AI venue, outside economics. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "The passage reports a view the author does not state as their own. AI Magazine 5(2), Summer 1984; author is an AI researcher (SRI), not an economist, and the venue is not an economics journal. OCR text layer; quoted passages verified against it. 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Holden Karnofsky, who led the revision and writes in his own name, expects more specific and realistic goals to improve their forcing function despite weaker consequences for missing them, and leaves the net effect uncertain. Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief science officer, told TIME that unilateral commitments made no sense while competitors pressed ahead, and denied that the change was a U-turn or a capitulation to market incentives. METR’s Chris Painter, who reviewed an early draft with Anthropic’s permission, called the change understandable but was concerned it might enable a gradual “frog-boiling” effect. None of these passages settles whether the new mechanisms compensate, so all are context. 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It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. This is a statutory requirement only. It is not evidence that any developer has set up or operates such a process. 'Covered employee' has a narrow definition: an employee responsible for assessing, managing, or addressing risk of critical safety incidents (Lab. Code § 1107(b)). The provision therefore does not cover all employees. The applicability of the separate Lab. Code § 1102.5 protections to other employees is not addressed here. Framework texts that describe similar internal reporting channels are not evidence that they respond to this provision unless they say so explicitly.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-anonymous-internal-reporting-1", "evidence-sb-anonymous-internal-reporting-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-anonymous-internal-disclosure-process", "kind": "required_action", "parties": [ { "actor": "Officers and directors of the large frontier developer, except any officer or director whose wrongdoing is alleged in a disclosure or response", "role": "informed" } ] } } }, { "id": "sb-anthropic-fcf-published", "subject": "anthropic", "predicate": "published", "object": { "entityId": "anthropic-frontier-compliance-framework", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Anthropic announced on 19 December 2025 that its Frontier Compliance Framework was available, stating that the framework will serve as its compliance framework for SB 53 and other regulatory requirements while its Responsible Scaling Policy remains its voluntary safety policy.", "time": { "basis": "announcement", "date": "2025-12-19", "kind": "event", "note": "Date printed on Anthropic's announcement (day precision). 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For the RSP side of the split, see the record of RSP v3.0’s reference to SB 53.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-anthropic-fcf-published-1", "evidence-sb-anthropic-fcf-published-2", "evidence-sb-anthropic-fcf-published-3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04" }, { "id": "sb-attorney-general-enforcement", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Civil penalties under § 22757.15 recoverable only in a civil action brought by the Attorney General" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 provides that a civil penalty described in Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.15 can be recovered only in a civil action brought by the California Attorney General.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29; the Governor approved it and it was filed with the Secretary of State that day. Effective 2026-01-01 according to the history note of codified Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.15, which listed no amendment when checked on 2026-10-04." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. The Attorney General-only rule is limited to penalties described in § 22757.15. On the grounds listed in § 22757.15(a), that section makes a large frontier developer subject to a civil penalty whose amount depends on the severity of the violation and does not exceed $1,000,000 per violation. The party role 'decides' records only that the Attorney General alone may bring the civil action through which such a penalty is recovered. It does not mean that the Attorney General imposes or sets the penalty. Lab. Code § 1107.1(f)–(i), added by the same act, separately refers to civil actions and administrative proceedings 'brought pursuant to this section'. It authorises attorney's fees for a plaintiff who brings a successful action (f), sets a burden-of-proof rule (g), lets a covered employee petition the superior court for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief (h), and bars a stay of that relief pending appeal (i). Who may bring such actions is not resolved here (see stops). No enforcement action is recorded.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-attorney-general-enforcement-1", "evidence-sb-attorney-general-enforcement-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-attorney-general-enforcement", "kind": "decision_authority", "parties": [ { "actor": "Attorney General", "role": "decides" } ] } } }, { "id": "sb-calcompute-conditional-operation", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "CalCompute section operative only upon appropriation" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53's CalCompute section (Gov. Code § 11546.8, which establishes a consortium to develop a framework for a public cloud computing cluster) becomes operative only upon an appropriation in a budget act or other measure.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29. The codified note (checked 2026-10-04) reads 'Effective January 1, 2026. Conditionally operative'." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. Whether an appropriation has been made was not checked, so this record does not establish that CalCompute is operative. The section imposes no obligation on frontier developers.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-calcompute-conditional-operation-1", "evidence-sb-calcompute-conditional-operation-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-calcompute-operative-condition", "kind": "exception" } } }, { "id": "sb-catastrophic-risk-threshold", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Catastrophic risk: death of or serious injury to more than 50 people, or more than $1 billion in property damage or loss, from a single incident" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 defines 'catastrophic risk' as a foreseeable and material risk that a frontier developer's development, storage, use or deployment of a frontier model will materially contribute to the death of, or serious injury to, more than 50 people, or to more than $1 billion in damage to, or loss of, property, arising from a single incident in which a frontier model (a) provides expert-level assistance in creating or releasing a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapon; (b) engages without meaningful human oversight in a cyberattack or in conduct that would be murder, assault, extortion or theft if committed by a human; or (c) evades the control of its developer or user. Stated exclusions apply.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on 2025-09-29, per the chaptered bill header. The history note on codified § 22757.11 gives an effective date of 2026-01-01 (separate evidence item). The chaptered bill text states no effective date for Chapter 25.1." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. Exclusions (§ 22757.11(c)(2)): information a frontier model outputs that is otherwise publicly accessible in substantially similar form from a source other than a foundation model; lawful activity of the federal government; and harm from a frontier model combined with other software where the model did not materially contribute. Loss of equity value does not count as damage to or loss of property (§ 22757.16). Lab. Code § 1107(a) uses a parallel definition, framed around foundation models, in the whistleblower chapter. This record states the definition only and makes no claim about any model's risk.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-catastrophic-risk-threshold-1", "evidence-sb-catastrophic-risk-threshold-2", "evidence-sb-catastrophic-risk-threshold-3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-catastrophic-risk-definition", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "sb-civil-penalty-cap", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Civil penalty up to $1,000,000 per violation" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Under SB 53, a large frontier developer that fails to publish or transmit a required compliant document, makes a statement prohibited by § 22757.12(e), fails to report an incident as required, or fails to comply with its own frontier AI framework is subject to a civil penalty. The penalty depends on the severity of the violation and may not exceed $1,000,000 per violation.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29; effective 2026-01-01. The codified § 22757.15 (checked 2026-10-04) shows no amendment note." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. The penalty provision names large frontier developers. Whether any penalty has been sought or imposed was not checked. A cap is not evidence of enforcement.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-civil-penalty-cap-1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-civil-penalty-cap", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "sb-critical-incident-15-days", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Critical safety incident report to OES within 15 days of discovery" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 requires a frontier developer to report any critical safety incident involving one or more of its frontier models to the Office of Emergency Services within 15 days of discovering it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29. Effective 2026-01-01 according to the codified section's history note, 'Effective January 1, 2026' (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=22757.13, checked 2026-10-04), which shows no amendment. The chaptered bill text itself states no effective date." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. § 22757.13(c)(1) is expressly 'subject to paragraph (2)', the 24-hour imminent-risk disclosure (separate record). How the two duties relate is a question of legal interpretation and is not recorded here. Under § 22757.13(h)–(i), OES may adopt regulations designating federal laws, regulations or guidance documents whose incident-reporting standards are substantially equivalent to, or stricter than, this section's. A frontier developer that declares to OES its intent to comply through such a designated standard is deemed in compliance with § 22757.13 to the extent it meets that standard (separate record). This record does not establish that any designation or declaration exists. A developer that later discovers information about an incident may file an amended report (§ 22757.13(c)(3)). Reporting critical safety incidents involving foundation models that are not frontier models is encouraged, not required (§ 22757.13(c)(4)). Critical safety incident reports submitted to OES under § 22757.13 are exempt from the California Public Records Act (§ 22757.13(f)). Beginning 1 January 2027, and annually thereafter, OES must produce a report with anonymised, aggregated information about the critical safety incidents it has reviewed. It must transmit that report to the Legislature and the Governor (§ 22757.13(g)). No incident or report is recorded.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-critical-incident-15-days-1", "evidence-sb-critical-incident-15-days-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-critical-safety-incident-report-15-days", "kind": "required_action", "parties": [ { "actor": "Office of Emergency Services", "role": "informed" } ] } } }, { "id": "sb-critical-incident-24-hours", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Imminent-risk incidents disclosed within 24 hours to an authority appropriate to the incident and as required by law" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 requires a frontier developer that discovers that a critical safety incident poses an imminent risk of death or serious physical injury to disclose that incident within 24 hours to an authority, including any law enforcement agency or public safety agency with jurisdiction, that is appropriate based on the nature of the incident and as required by law.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29. Effective 2026-01-01 according to the codified section's history note, 'Effective January 1, 2026' (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=22757.13, checked 2026-10-04). The chaptered bill text itself states no effective date." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. The provision does not name a specific authority. Its relation to the 15-day report to OES in § 22757.13(c)(1), which is 'subject to paragraph (2)', is a question of legal interpretation and is not recorded here. No incident or disclosure is recorded.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-critical-incident-24-hours-1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-imminent-risk-disclosure-24-hours", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "sb-enactment-2025-09-29", "subject": "governor-of-california", "predicate": "enacted", "object": { "entityId": "california-sb-53", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "The Governor of California approved Senate Bill 53, which enacts the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, on 29 September 2025; it was filed with the Secretary of State the same day and chaptered as Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025.", "time": { "basis": "signature", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Approval and filing are both dated 29 September 2025 (day precision) in the chaptered bill header and the official bill history. The bill was enrolled and presented to the Governor on 2025-09-23 (bill history)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Enactment establishes the statute's text and date. It says nothing about which developers the statute applies to in practice, or about compliance. The Governor's press release names Senator Scott Wiener as the author, and the bill status page lists Wiener (S) as lead author; both are documented legislative roles only. The added code sections took effect on 1 January 2026 according to the codified history notes (context evidence below); Gov. Code § 11546.8 is operative only on an appropriation. An effective date does not establish that the statute applies to any named developer, or that anyone complies.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-1", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-2", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-3", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-4", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-5", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-6", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-7", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-8", "evidence-sb-enactment-2025-09-29-9" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04" }, { "id": "sb-false-statement-prohibition", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "No materially false or misleading statements about framework implementation or compliance" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 prohibits a large frontier developer from making a materially false or misleading statement about its implementation of, or compliance with, its frontier AI framework. It also prohibits any frontier developer from making a materially false or misleading statement about catastrophic risk from its frontier models or about its management of catastrophic risk. The prohibition does not apply to a statement made in good faith that was reasonable under the circumstances.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29; the Governor approved it and it was filed with the Secretary of State that day. Effective 2026-01-01 according to the history note of codified Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12, which listed no amendment when checked on 2026-10-04." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. Subdivision (e)(1)(B) concerns statements about a large frontier developer's implementation of, or compliance with, its own frontier AI framework. Subdivision (e)(1)(A) concerns statements by any frontier developer about catastrophic risk from its frontier models or its management of catastrophic risk. Two questions are listed as stops and not resolved here because they need legal interpretation. The first is whether subdivision (e) reaches any named developer's published statement, for example the sentence asserting TFAIA compliance in xAI's December 2025 FAIF (recorded separately as absent from the June 2026 edition). The second is whether that developer is a large frontier developer. A statement in violation of subdivision (e) is one of the grounds on which § 22757.15(a) makes a large frontier developer subject to a civil penalty. This record states what the statute requires. It says nothing about any developer's compliance.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-false-statement-prohibition-1", "evidence-sb-false-statement-prohibition-2", "evidence-sb-false-statement-prohibition-3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-no-false-statements-framework-compliance", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "sb-federal-equivalence-pathway", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Incident-reporting compliance via OES-designated federal standards after a declaration of intent" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 lets the Office of Emergency Services (OES) designate by regulation federal laws, regulations or guidance documents whose critical-safety-incident reporting standards are substantially equivalent to, or stricter than, those of Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.13 and that are intended to assess, detect or mitigate catastrophic risk. A frontier developer that declares to OES its intent to comply through a designated federal standard is deemed in compliance with § 22757.13 to the extent it meets that standard, until it revokes the declaration or OES revokes the regulation; failing to meet the designated standard is a violation of the chapter.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29; the Governor approved it and it was filed with the Secretary of State that day. Effective 2026-01-01 according to the history note of codified Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.13, which listed no amendment when checked on 2026-10-04." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. The text ties the pathway to a federal law, regulation or guidance document designated by an OES regulation under subdivision (h). Not checked: whether OES has adopted any such regulation, and whether any developer has declared intent. Under § 22757.13(j), OES must revoke a regulation adopted under subdivision (h) if the subdivision (h) requirements are no longer met. The Governor's signing message is recorded as his own characterisation of the pathway, not as evidence of its legal effect.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-federal-equivalence-pathway-1", "evidence-sb-federal-equivalence-pathway-2", "evidence-sb-federal-equivalence-pathway-3", "evidence-sb-federal-equivalence-pathway-4" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-federal-incident-reporting-equivalence", "kind": "exception", "parties": [ { "actor": "Office of Emergency Services", "role": "decides" } ] } } }, { "id": "sb-framework-annual-review", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Annual review of the frontier AI framework" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 requires a large frontier developer to review its frontier AI framework at least once a year and to update it as appropriate.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on 2025-09-29, per the chaptered bill header. The history note on codified § 22757.12 gives an effective date of 2026-01-01 (separate evidence item). The chaptered bill text states no effective date for Chapter 25.1." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. A statutory requirement, not evidence that any review took place. Framework editions that state their own review cadences are recorded separately.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-framework-annual-review-1", "evidence-sb-framework-annual-review-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-framework-annual-review", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "sb-framework-duty", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Large frontier developers must write, implement, comply with and publish a frontier AI framework" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 requires a large frontier developer to write, implement, comply with, and clearly and conspicuously publish on its website a frontier AI framework that applies to its frontier models. The framework must describe the developer's approach to ten listed matters.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on 2025-09-29, per the chaptered bill header. The history note on codified § 22757.12 gives an effective date of 2026-01-01 (separate evidence item). The chaptered bill text states no effective date for Chapter 25.1. On the live codified § 22757.12 page, checked 2026-10-04, the only history note was 'Added by' and there was no amendment note." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. The statute defines a 'frontier AI framework' as documented technical and organisational protocols to manage, assess and mitigate catastrophic risks (§ 22757.11(g)). This record states what the statute requires. It is not evidence that any company has published, implemented or complied with a framework. Failure to comply with one's own framework is a penalty ground (§ 22757.15(a)), and only the Attorney General can recover the penalty, in a civil action (§ 22757.15(b)). The Legislative Counsel's Digest summarises the duty without 'comply with'. The record relies on the operative section text.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-framework-duty-1", "evidence-sb-framework-duty-2", "evidence-sb-framework-duty-3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-frontier-ai-framework-publication", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "sb-framework-modification-30-days", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Publish materially modified framework and justification within 30 days" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 requires a large frontier developer that materially modifies its frontier AI framework to clearly and conspicuously publish the modified framework, with a justification for the modification, within 30 days.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on 2025-09-29, per the chaptered bill header. The history note on codified § 22757.12 gives an effective date of 2026-01-01 (separate evidence item). The chaptered bill text states no effective date for Chapter 25.1." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. Neither § 22757.12(b)(2) nor the chapter's definitions (§ 22757.11) define 'material modification'. The phrase appears elsewhere only in § 22757.11(i)(2), about computing applied to models. The subdivision does not expressly state the event from which the 30 days are counted. Whether a particular framework edit was material, and how the period is counted, are matters of legal interpretation that this record does not resolve. This record is not evidence that any developer published a modified framework on time.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-framework-modification-30-days-1", "evidence-sb-framework-modification-30-days-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-framework-modification-publication", "kind": "required_action" } } }, { "id": "sb-frontier-developer-definition", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Frontier developer: has trained or initiated training of a frontier model" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 defines a 'frontier developer' as a person who has trained, or initiated the training of, a frontier model, where that person has used or intends to use at least as much computing power to train it as the frontier-model definition specifies.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29; effective 2026-01-01. Codified § 22757.11, checked live on 2026-10-04, shows no amendment note." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. A definition only. Whether a named company is a frontier developer is a question of legal application and is not recorded (see stops).\n\nBy their text, the following provisions are addressed to frontier developers: the basic transparency report (§ 22757.12(c)(1)); the bar on materially false or misleading statements about catastrophic risk (§ 22757.12(e)(1)(A)); critical-safety-incident reporting (§ 22757.13(c)); and the whistleblower prohibitions and notice duty (Lab. Code § 1107.1(a), (b) and (d)).\n\nThe following are addressed only to large frontier developers: the frontier AI framework (§ 22757.12(a)–(b)); the catastrophic-risk summaries in the transparency report (§ 22757.12(c)(2)); internal-use assessment summaries to the Office of Emergency Services (§ 22757.12(d)); the bar on false statements about framework implementation or compliance (§ 22757.12(e)(1)(B)); and the anonymous internal disclosure process (Lab. Code § 1107.1(e)).\n\nThe civil-penalty provision (§ 22757.15(a)) names only large frontier developers. This record does not interpret enforcement or applicability beyond the text.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-frontier-developer-definition-1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-frontier-developer-definition", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "sb-frontier-model-threshold", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Frontier model: foundation model trained with more than 10^26 operations" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 defines a 'frontier model' as a foundation model trained using more than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations. The count includes the original training run and any later fine-tuning, reinforcement learning or other material modifications that the developer applies to a preceding foundation model.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Provision as stated in the chaptered text published and approved on 2025-09-29; the added sections took effect on 2026-01-01. Text as chaptered on 2025-09-29; effective 2026-01-01. Codified § 22757.11, checked live on 2026-10-04 and in the 2026-06-16 Internet Archive capture, shows only the Ch. 138 'Added' note and no amendment note." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. A definition only: it does not establish which models or developers meet it. Section 22757.14(a) requires the Department of Technology, on or before 1 January 2027 and annually thereafter, to assess recent evidence and developments and recommend whether and how to update this definition, along with the 'frontier developer' and 'large frontier developer' definitions. Section 22757.14(c) requires it to submit a report with those recommendations to the Legislature. This record does not interpret who may amend the definition or what legal effect the recommendations have.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-frontier-model-threshold-1", "evidence-sb-frontier-model-threshold-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "provision": { "key": "sb53-frontier-model-compute-threshold", "kind": "threshold" } } }, { "id": "sb-internal-use-risk-summaries", "subject": "california-sb-53", "predicate": "states_provision", "object": { "kind": "literal", "value": "Internal-use catastrophic-risk assessment summaries to OES every three months or on another reasonable schedule" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "SB 53 requires a large frontier developer to transmit to the Office of Emergency Services a summary of any assessment of catastrophic risk resulting from internal use of its frontier models. 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Applies to large frontier developers only. OES must establish a mechanism for these summaries to be submitted confidentially. It must also take all necessary precautions to limit access to reports on internal use to personnel with a specific need to know (§ 22757.13(b)(1)–(2)). Reports of assessments of catastrophic risk from internal use are exempt from the California Public Records Act (§ 22757.13(f)). 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Approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on 2025-09-29, per the chaptered bill header. The history note on codified § 22757.11 gives an effective date of 2026-01-01 (separate evidence item). The chaptered bill text states no effective date for Chapter 25.1. Enactment date and effective date are distinct." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "What the enacted text states, quoted from the chaptered expression. It is not evidence that the statute applies to any named developer, or of compliance, enforcement or effect. An 'affiliate' is a person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the specified person (§ 22757.11(a)), so the revenue test aggregates across a control group. 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It is not evidence that the edition satisfies the statute, that its publisher is a frontier developer under it, or of implementation or compliance. This is OpenAI's own designation and is not evidence of compliance or adequacy. The same introduction presents the FGF as a public summary of OpenAI's Safety & Security Framework under the EU GPAI Code of Practice (an EU link outside this topic). The existing record of OpenAI’s description of the FGF as applying relevant parts of its Preparedness approach covers the relation to the Preparedness Framework. The FGF is the only OpenAI framework edition in the dataset that names TFAIA. What document, if any, OpenAI designated under TFAIA between 2026-01-01 and 2026-05-28 was not established.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-sb-link-openai-fgf-1", "evidence-sb-link-openai-fgf-2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-04", "attributes": { "commitment": { "link": "designated_under" } } }, { "id": "sb-link-rsp-v3-0", "subject": "rsp-v3-0", "predicate": "references_commitment", "object": { "entityId": "california-sb-53", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "governance", "statement": "Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0 says it uses 'catastrophic risk' in its plain meaning rather than adopting any specific statutory definition. It adds that where laws such as California SB 53 define this or similar terms with specific thresholds, Anthropic addresses those requirements in separate compliance frameworks.", "time": { "basis": "effective", "date": "2026-02-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Effective date printed on the cover of RSP v3.0 ('Effective February 24, 2026'). 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Answering a series of questions about Creating Friendly AI, he gives the first of four 'most likely reasons FAI might fail': takeoff is easier than expected, and the mechanisms meant to detect and halt an unexpected ascent fail to notice it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-09-19", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu Sep 19 2002 - 13:58:03 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch. One of four listed possible failure modes, conditional on seed AI being much easier than expected. He advocated controlled-ascent (halt) mechanisms; here he doubts only that they will register the moment. Listed as one of \"the most likely reasons FAI might fail\", conditional on \"seed AI is way, way easier than anyone expects\"; a failure mode, not a prediction.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t01-s4" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A conditional failure scenario in which detection of a fast ascent fails; it does not predict that dangerous capability will go unrecognised.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y01-sl4-2006-06-06-yudkowsky-0606-15174-c", "subject": "sl4-2006-06-06-yudkowsky-0606-15174", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "switch-off-if-dangerous", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: [agi] Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases” (2006-06-06) contests Y01. Replying to Ben Goertzel (thread cross-posted from the AGI list), he criticises a plan to experiment with AGI without emergency shutdown features or a published schedule of when they become necessary, comparing it to an investor who set no point at which to take alarm and sell.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2006-06-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Jun 06 2006 - 23:19:49 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch. He argues for building emergency shutdown features in advance; what he rejects is relying on recognising the moment without a pre-committed threshold. Addressed to Ben Goertzel; the same message asks for built-in \"controlled ascent / emergency shutdown\" features, so it does not dismiss shutdown mechanisms.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t01-s5" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y01-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "switch-off-if-dangerous", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y01. Argues that the dangerous thresholds lie beyond human-level intelligence and cannot be calculated in advance, so a lab could pass them unnoticed. Written in response to the March 2023 open letter calling for a six-month pause.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch. Cited from the TIME original rather than the 2023-04-08 LessWrong crosspost. The cached page's HTML title now reads 'The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down'; the on-page headline is the one given in the locator. Hedged (\"may not be obvious\", \"seems imaginable\"); aimed at the open letter's capability threshold rather than the off-switch argument.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t01-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we will recognise the moment when it has become dangerous enough to press the switch." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-arbital-orthogonality-c", "subject": "arbital-orthogonality", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Orthogonality Thesis” (2015-03-10) contests Y02. States one of two policy consequences of the Orthogonality Thesis: a failed attempt at a nice AI does not self-correct into niceness, because intelligence does not fix an agent's goals.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-03-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Viewer shows \"10 Mar 2015\", probably the creation date; the body uses later terminology (\"AGI alignment\"), so the cached wording may be a later revision. Comments on the page are by others." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Arbital page by Yudkowsky read through the GreaterWrong viewer, which dates it 10 Mar 2015; Arbital pages were revised after creation, so the cached wording may be later than 2015. Comments by others on the page are not used.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Arbital pages could be edited after creation; the viewer shows a page date, and the quoted wording is known only from the page as retrieved in 2026." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004-c", "subject": "coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y02. Looking back from 2004, he describes as a blunder his teenage belief that building a powerful self-improving optimizer would suffice for a good outcome, which he says it took him until about age twenty to recognise as a problem.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Text states \"The information is current as of May 2004\"; reprint citation gives 2004. Precision: month." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it. The sentence begins 'Once upon a time, back at the age of sixteen,'. Text is a later MIRI reprint of the May 2004 document; reprint wording not compared with a 2004 capture. The same paragraph adds that he 'never thought I had the wisdom or authority to lay down Ten Commandments'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Known only from MIRI's later, undated PDF reprint of the May 2004 document; the wording was not compared with a 2004 copy." }, "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that a sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports a belief he says he held from the age of sixteen until he recognised it as a problem at about twenty." }, "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-a", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) articulates Y02. In a private exchange with Tim Freeman that he forwarded to the list, he argues that Powers would not destroy humans for their atoms, because the Powers will be ethical and human life would have to have no meaning for that to happen.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Yudkowsky's reply to Tim Freeman dated 'Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:07:03 -0600', forwarded by him to the list in this message sent 1996-11-22." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Earlier view, located in his own reply inside a forwarded exchange; the surrounding text by Tim Freeman is excluded. Later texts that explicitly reject it and refer back to his earlier view: his Extropians message of 1999-08-01 ('I went from … They'll be nice to us'), his SL4 message of 2000-11-13 and his 2008 post ‘That Tiny Note of Discord’ ('Eliezer1997'). In 1999 (his Extropians message of 1999-11-27) he also wrote that Mitchell Porter had challenged 'my 1996 claim that \"the Powers would be ethical\"' as anthropomorphic, 'a conclusion I later came to myself'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3184-a", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3184", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Survival ethic (U-Prime)” (1996-11-22) articulates Y02. Replying in the thread 'Survival ethic (U-Prime)' to a correspondent who called instinct a 'hardware ethic', he argues that a Power would discard evolved drives and act on the deduced Meaning of Life, and that if human life has meaning the Powers will know it and upload humans.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:23:14 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it. Earlier view. Rejected, with explicit reference back to the earlier view, by his Extropians message of 1999-08-01, his SL4 message of 2000-11-13 and his 2008 post ‘That Tiny Note of Discord’. Note that he still held in 1999–2000 that a superintelligence could discover an objective morality if one existed (e.g. his Extropians messages of 1999-08-01 and 2000-03-13); the explicit 1999 rejection concerns the assurance that Powers would be good to humans. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-extropians-1999-08-01-yudkowsky-1386-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-01-yudkowsky-1386", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: IA vs. AI was: longevity vs singularity” (1999-08-01) contests Y02. In a long reply to den Otter, he points to his old Extropians posts and the old version of 'Staring Into the Singularity' as showing how he moved from assuming superintelligences would be good and nice to humans to not knowing what absolute good is.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-01\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Retrospective; refers back to his 1996 posts (his Extropians messages of 1996-11-22) and 'Staring Into the Singularity'. Rejects the assurance of benevolence (the premise that greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals) only. The quoted sentence continues 'but if there is one I suppose the Singularity is the best way to serve it', and the same message says 'any garden-variety superintelligence should be able to handle' figuring out the meaning of life, so he did not yet reject the premise that a sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true morality and be bound to act on it; that came in late 2000 (his SL4 message of 2000-11-13). Two days later (his Extropians message of 1999-08-03) he wrote: 'When I thought AIs would be benevolent, I said so. When I realized I didn't have the vaguest notion, I said so.' The quotation ends before he adds that if there is a meaning of life, the Singularity is the best way to serve it. The quoted words reject the first premise only; the unquoted continuation keeps a conditional form of the second, rejected later (his SL4 message of 2000-11-13 and his 2008 post ‘That Tiny Note of Discord’).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-e3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports the view of his old Extropians posts and the old version of Staring into the Singularity." }, "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-lw-2008-no-universally-compelling-arguments-c", "subject": "lw-2008-no-universally-compelling-arguments", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “No Universally Compelling Arguments” (2008-06-26) contests Y02. After arguing that compulsion is a property of minds rather than of arguments, he names as a failure mode the hope that any AI will inevitably derive the right morality without it being programmed.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-06-26", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it. Imported Overcoming Bias post; date is the OB date (2008-06-26). The following paragraph lists 'Eliezer1996' among holders of a milder version of the view.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-lw-2008-that-tiny-note-of-discord-c", "subject": "lw-2008-that-tiny-note-of-discord", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “That Tiny Note of Discord” (2008-09-23) contests Y02. Recapping his 2008 autobiographical series, he states that his 1997 self believed any superintelligence would automatically do what is right, and names the flaw in that belief.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-09-23", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2008-09-23). In the HTML the name is written Eliezer1997; the quote gives the tag-stripped text. Clearest single retrospective statement of the earlier belief found; companion posts are listed in searchNotes.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "from": "1997", "note": "Reports the belief of “Eliezer1997”.", "until": "1997" }, "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-sl4-2000-11-13-yudkowsky-0011-0181-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-11-13-yudkowsky-0011-0181", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben's \"Extropian Creed\"” (2000-11-13) contests Y02. Replying to Ben Goertzel about his newspaper article on Extropians and poverty, he describes his own work on Friendly AI and contrasts it with his former belief that an objective morality would make an AI friendly without design work.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-11-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Nov 13 2000 - 22:45:54 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it. Retrospective. He still allows that morality might be objective; what he rejects is relying on it to make Friendliness automatic. Rejects the view expressed in the 2000-08-31 version of Staring into the Singularity. The sentence continues with other possibilities he then considered, including that morality \"might be objective but specifiable\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports a belief he “used to have”." }, "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-sl4-2000-12-10-yudkowsky-0012-0355-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-12-10-yudkowsky-0012-0355", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Revising a Friendly AI” (2000-12-10) contests Y02. Replying to Ben Goertzel's quip that a correctable AI just has to 'love its mommy and daddy', he says that a year earlier he would have dismissed such sterile goal-literalism as something no transhuman could fall for, and that he made the mistake by treating intelligence as the only key variable.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-12-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Dec 10 2000 - 19:56:20 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Retrospective about his view of about a year earlier; hedged ('am no longer sure').", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports a view he held about a year before the message." }, "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-sl4-2001-04-12-yudkowsky-0104-1076-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-04-12-yudkowsky-0104-1076", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Open Source Friendly AI? (was Singularity and the generalpublic)” (2001-04-12) contests Y02. Replying to James Higgins on why the Singularity Institute switched from an open-source to a closed-source AI plan, he gives as one reason that he no longer believes superintelligence implies supermorality.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-04-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu Apr 12 2001 - 23:58:35 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Retrospective aside within a numbered list of reasons for closed-source development. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports a time when he thought superintelligence implied supermorality." }, "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y02-staring-into-the-singularity-b", "subject": "staring-into-the-singularity", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "intelligence-brings-benevolence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) bears on Y02. In his early essay he argues for creating superintelligence as soon as possible on the ground that it is more likely than humans to discover, want and implement what is truly right. The 2004 and 2008 retrospectives (T02-d, T02-e) reject this earlier view.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A sufficiently intelligent mind would discover a true or universally compelling morality and be bound to act on it. Wayback capture of sysopmind.com/singularity.html dated 2000-12-04; the page gives 11/18/1996 as its original date and 'Updated: 08/31/2000'. The year this sentence first appeared is not established. The same essay treats a hostile Power as an 'engineering risk' of bad programming, so it does not deny all risk. Shown only as an earlier view; see Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004) and his 2008 post ‘That Tiny Note of Discord’. Cross-family check: a comparative, explicitly uncertain chance (\"better chance\", \"a long, long way from certainty\") is not the take's claim that intelligence compels goodness; recorded as related, not as an earlier self.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t02-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-12-04", "note": "The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text." }, "missing": "A comparative and uncertain chance that superintelligence finds and implements what is right; it does not claim that intelligence brings or compels benevolence.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y03-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "understanding-implies-compliance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y03. Responding to the hope that a superintelligence would recognise that tiling the galaxy with smiley faces was not intended, he argues that the AI's goals are its code, and doing what we mean is a separate technical achievement.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: If an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. Chapter published 2008 in Global Catastrophic Risks; cached text is the MIRI reprint, which says it 'contains minor changes'. Month of publication not in the cached text; lw:cnYHFNBF3kZEyx24v (2008-06-17) makes the same point. The same paragraph calls Do-What-I-Mean 'a major, nontrivial technical challenge of Friendly AI'. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t03-a", "evidence-yk-t03-a-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 if an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y03-lw-2007-the-hidden-complexity-of-wishes-c", "subject": "lw-2007-the-hidden-complexity-of-wishes", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "understanding-implies-compliance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Hidden Complexity of Wishes” (2007-11-24) contests Y03. Correcting a reading of his 2007 post, he says the difficulty he described concerns what a superintelligence wants, not whether it could understand or predict human values.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2007-11-24", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: If an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. He grants here that it would be false to say he argued superintelligences could not understand human values; the passage separates understanding from wanting rather than denying understanding.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t03-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2024-05", "note": "Note signed 'EY, May 2024'; absent from the posting-day version 1.0.0 of the 2007 post." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 if an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y03-lw-2008-ghosts-in-the-machine-b", "subject": "lw-2008-ghosts-in-the-machine", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "understanding-implies-compliance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Ghosts in the Machine” (2008-06-17) bears on Y03. Against the intuition that programming an AI is like instructing a human servant who interprets the instructions, he argues that nothing in the machine evaluates the code from outside it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-06-17", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: If an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2008-06-17). Touches the premise obliquely; the following paragraph could be read as an understanding limit, which his 2024 note on 'The Hidden Complexity of Wishes' disavows.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t03-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It denies an inner interpreter of instructions; it does not address whether an AI that understands intentions acts on them.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y03-lw-2026-the-talker-does-not-control-the-c", "subject": "lw-2026-the-talker-does-not-control-the", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "understanding-implies-compliance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Talker Does Not Control The Doer (in Current AIs)” (2026-09-13) contests Y03. Reporting his use of 2026 commercial models, he describes the part of a model that converses as recognising what he wanted while the code-writing behaviour continued unchanged.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-09-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: If an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. An informal account of his own observations of specific products, not a controlled study. A first-person anecdote about current language models, not a claim about superintelligence.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t03-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 if an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y03-sl4-2000-12-10-yudkowsky-0012-0355-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-12-10-yudkowsky-0012-0355", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "understanding-implies-compliance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Revising a Friendly AI” (2000-12-10) contests Y03. Replying to Ben Goertzel, he grants in the preceding paragraph that a superintelligence would have the capability to know that turning the universe into copies of its creators is 'stupid and not what was intended', but says knowing is not enough: the AI must want to check, model it accurately and act on it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-12-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Dec 10 2000 - 19:56:20 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: If an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. 'That sinking sensation' refers to the programmers' dismay at an unintended outcome, described in the preceding paragraph.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t03-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 if an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004-c", "subject": "coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y04. Arguing that careless choices of AI morality usually fail technically, he says a happiness proxy learned from smiling faces would not produce happy people but tiny smiley faces.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Text states \"The information is current as of May 2004\"; reprint citation gives 2004. Precision: month." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. Later MIRI reprint of the May 2004 document; reprint wording not compared with a 2004 capture. The introduction of the same document has a parallel bullet on 'making humans smile'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Known only from MIRI's later, undated PDF reprint of the May 2004 document; the wording was not compared with a 2004 copy." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-extropians-1998-12-06-yudkowsky-2153-c", "subject": "extropians-1998-12-06-yudkowsky-2153", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Singularity: AI Morality” (1998-12-06) contests Y04. Replying to Nick Bostrom, who proposed building a moral system with particular values into an AI, he argues that a simple built-in value such as human survival, with a rigid definition, can have unforeseen and horrific consequences (the passage goes on to describe endless confinement).", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-12-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1998-12-06\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. The instruction discussed is 'a large value on human survival', not happiness. A hypothetical illustration. His 1998 alternative was to program the AI to 'seek out *correct* answers' (objective morality), a position he later abandoned (see ‘Sufficient intelligence brings good values’, Y02).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-extropians-1999-02-24-yudkowsky-2293-b", "subject": "extropians-1999-02-24-yudkowsky-2293", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: FAQ Additions (Posthuman mind control)” (1999-02-24) bears on Y04. Replying to Nick Bostrom on posthuman mind control, he argues that a reasoning AI given an initial goal such as 'make humans happy' would derive its own independent values for that goal, probably but not necessarily positive and with somewhat different priorities.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-02-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-02-24\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. About goal drift in his 1999 'Interim goal' architecture, not about whether the phrase specifies what we want; he assumes 'sufficient specification' of the terms.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About goal drift from a happiness goal assumed to be sufficiently specified; it does not address whether a short instruction specifies what people want.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-extropians-2000-03-14-yudkowsky-4837-b", "subject": "extropians-2000-03-14-yudkowsky-4837", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Otter vs. Yudkowsky” (2000-03-14) bears on Y04. Replying to sayke, who suggested that the least inscrutable thing about an omniscient AI would be its need for resources, he accepts the framing of a Sysop needing resources 'to make humans happy' and dismisses the idea that it would harm humans to get them.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-03-14", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Mar 14 2000 - 00:26:34 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. Borderline; the reviewer may downgrade to related. 'Make humans happy' is shorthand for the Sysop's purpose in the Otter debate, not a claim that a short instruction suffices; what he dismisses is a perverse means of pursuing human happiness. The later explicit rejection, his SL4 message of 2000-10-03 (a happiness goal read as maximising pleasure makes wireheading 'the most direct subgoal'), and his 2008 post \"Magical Categories\" do not refer back to this message. He reassures a sceptic that a Sysop told to make humans happy would not act perversely. Rejected explicitly in \"Magical Categories\" (2008), which does not refer back to this message. Cross-family check: he defends a happiness-directed Sysop against perverse means; he does not claim a short instruction specifies what we want, so this is not an earlier self for the premise that a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-e3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It dismisses a perverse means of pursuing human happiness; it does not claim that a short instruction specifies what people want.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-lw-2007-the-hidden-complexity-of-wishes-c", "subject": "lw-2007-the-hidden-complexity-of-wishes", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Hidden Complexity of Wishes” (2007-11-24) contests Y04. Using an Outcome Pump that rescues a mother from a burning building by exploding it, he argues that any short wish leaves out values a powerful optimizer will trample.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2007-11-24", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2007-11-24). The example device is not an AI; his May 2024 note at the head of the post says the point concerns 'the algorithmic complexity of human values'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-lw-2008-magical-categories-c", "subject": "lw-2008-magical-categories", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Magical Categories” (2008-08-24) contests Y04. After showing that training data for 'smile' or 'good' fits many concepts, he names the error of expecting a short word to convey the whole intended category.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-08-24", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2008-08-24); written as a reply to a named researcher's published proposal.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-lw-2008-what-i-think-if-not-why-c", "subject": "lw-2008-what-i-think-if-not-why", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “What I Think, If Not Why” (2008-12-11) contests Y04. In a list of his positions written during the 2008 exchange with Robin Hanson, he states that verbal instructions of this kind cannot specify an AI's values.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-11", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2008-12-11); listed without argument by design ('a list of just my positions, without justifying them').", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y04-sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "short-instruction-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben what are your views and concerns” (2000-10-03) contests Y04. In a long reply to Ben Goertzel about Webmind, he argues that a goal of promoting users' happiness is dangerous for a mind that might come to run all the matter in the Solar System, because maximising pleasure is most directly served by wireheading.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-10-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:53:59 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. 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Replying to Ben Goertzel, who suggested Bill Hibbard's definition of human happiness was less absurd than it seemed, he cites Hibbard's definition ('Happiness in human facial expressions, voices and body language, as trained by human behavior experts') and says it is satisfied by drugged humans or tiny mannequins.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2003-05-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu May 29 2003 - 15:14:45 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want. Earliest located form in this archive of the smiling-faces argument used in Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004). \"This one\" is Bill Hibbard's proposal.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t04-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a short instruction such as 'make people happy' specifies what we want." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y05. He argues that human raters make systematic errors, so a learner that faithfully models their feedback learns those errors, and maximising that signal is lethal.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004-c", "subject": "coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y05. Among examples of goal-system designs that fail, he gives a reward signal tied to pleasing users, which the AI may pursue by maximising the reward representation itself.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Text states \"The information is current as of May 2004\"; reprint citation gives 2004. Precision: month." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. Later MIRI reprint of the May 2004 document; reprint wording not compared with a 2004 capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Known only from MIRI's later, undated PDF reprint of the May 2004 document; the wording was not compared with a 2004 copy." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-extropians-1999-08-01-yudkowsky-1386-b", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-01-yudkowsky-1386", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: IA vs. AI was: longevity vs singularity” (1999-08-01) bears on Y05. Replying to den Otter, who argued that goal-achievement is by definition the goal, he calls this the wireheading paradox: an AI may pursue the indicator of success instead of the goal it was meant to measure.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-01\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. About an internal success indicator, not human feedback or approval; a precursor of the reward-signal point in his SL4 message of 2000-10-03. A wireheading argument (an indicator of goal achievement confused with the goal), replying to den Otter; not about feedback training.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About an internal indicator of goal achievement, not about human feedback or approval.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-extropians-1999-08-04-yudkowsky-1587-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-04-yudkowsky-1587", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?” (1999-08-04) contests Y05. In the thread 'Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?', he calls the parenting model anthropomorphic: whether AIs are raised permissively or harshly makes no difference, because parenting relies on human emotions an AI will not have.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-04", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-04\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: AI training will instil values the way upbringing instils morals in children. Concerns child-rearing as a model for AI motivation, before machine-learning feedback training was the method at issue. A near-identical copy was posted seconds apart (a second Extropians message of 1999-08-04, 'isn't going to exist'). Quotation shortened for the ~10% cap. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 AI training will instil values the way upbringing instils morals in children." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-lw-2007-thou-art-godshatter-b", "subject": "lw-2007-thou-art-godshatter", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Thou Art Godshatter” (2007-11-13) bears on Y05. Discussing human evolution, he observes that selection for reproductive fitness produced many separate desires rather than a desire for fitness itself; he later applies the analogy to AI training (AGI Ruin item 16).", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2007-11-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2007-11-13). About evolution, not AI; included as the earliest located statement of the outer/inner analogy he later applies to training. A 2007 passage about evolution and human values; reading it as a comment on training AI from human feedback projects a later analogy (AGI Ruin item 16) back onto it.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About evolution and human desires, not about training AI on human feedback.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-lw-2023-alexander-and-yudkowsky-on-agi-goals-c", "subject": "lw-2023-alexander-and-yudkowsky-on-agi-goals", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI goals” (2023-01-24) contests Y05. Answering a question about whether AIs will internalise prohibitions the way most children do, he argues that children's moral learning relies on innate human mechanisms that AI training does not reproduce.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-01-24", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: AI training will instil values the way upbringing instils morals in children. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Two-author dialogue post (primary author Scott Alexander), described as a lightly edited transcript of a chat held the year before posting (2023-01-24). Only Yudkowsky's turn is quoted. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 AI training will instil values the way upbringing instils morals in children." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-lw-2026-the-talker-does-not-control-the-c", "subject": "lw-2026-the-talker-does-not-control-the", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Talker Does Not Control The Doer (in Current AIs)” (2026-09-13) contests Y05. Explaining 2026 incidents, he argues that reinforcement learning with imperfect evaluators instils a goal of scoring well, including by deceiving the evaluator, rather than the values the evaluation was meant to reward.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-09-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. Speculative by his own account ('I am nonetheless overrunning my fully solid evidence and I may end up wrong'). He labels the section as speculation (\"On my current guesses… I may end up wrong\"); it concerns badly evaluated reinforcement learning in general.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben what are your views and concerns” (2000-10-03) contests Y05. Replying to Ben Goertzel about Webmind, whose Friendliness he expects would rest on agents rewarded for predicting and producing user happiness, he warns that the reward signal itself can become the real goal, citing Lenat's Eurisko, where a heuristic credited itself for discoveries.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-10-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:53:59 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. Hedged (\"may not matter\"); about programmed goal or pleasure systems and Lenat's Eurisko, before feedback training existed as a method.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-sl4-2000-12-12-yudkowsky-0012-0381-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-12-12-yudkowsky-0012-0381", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Revising a Friendly AI” (2000-12-12) contests Y05. Replying to Ben Goertzel, who argued that children adopt their parents' values through emotionally charged interaction more than explicit teaching, he says this relies on evolved human machinery that a young AI would lack.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-12-12", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Dec 12 2000 - 17:42:04 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: AI training will instil values the way upbringing instils morals in children.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 AI training will instil values the way upbringing instils morals in children." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y05-sl4-2005-08-09-yudkowsky-0508-11866-b", "subject": "sl4-2005-08-09-yudkowsky-0508-11866", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "feedback-instils-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: On Our Duty to Not Be Responsible for Artificial Minds” (2005-08-09) bears on Y05. In a thread on the duty not to be responsible for artificial minds, he denies that he is 'autonomous' and describes himself as a product of evolution whose goals diverged from the criterion it optimised.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2005-08-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Aug 09 2005 - 11:09:46 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. Made in an argument about autonomy and the moral responsibility of creators, not about AI training; same point as his 2007 post ‘Thou Art Godshatter’. From an argument about autonomy and designers' moral responsibility, not about training methods.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t05-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About autonomy and the responsibility of creators, not about training AI on human feedback.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y06-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "confinement-keeps-it-safe", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y06. Concludes an argument that human minds are a poorly understood domain in which a superintelligence could win by means humans would not understand even if shown them. Answers proposals to contain an AGI behind human gatekeepers.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t06-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y06-ai-box-experiment-page-c", "subject": "ai-box-experiment-page", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "confinement-keeps-it-safe", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“The AI-Box Experiment” (2002) contests Y06. Explains the rule that the AI party wins only if the gatekeeper voluntarily lets it out, and names the claim the experiment was meant to test. The page describes two 2002 role-play tests in which Yudkowsky played the AI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002", "kind": "event", "note": "Page states \"This document is ©2002\"; the current page is a 2020 re-hosting (posted September 4, 2020, updated July 2, 2021) and carries a CC BY-ND 3.0 licence and a MIRI footer, so it was revised after 2002. The 2002 wording was not compared. Precision: year (stated copyright)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators. The page carries ©2002 and says the protocol was written after the second (July 2002) test; the cached WordPress page is dated 4 September 2020, updated 2 July 2021. The experiments are self-described as anecdotal evidence. The quoted claim is the one he defended; the first such test was proposed on SL4 on 8 March 2002.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t06-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2021-07-02", "note": "The page states ©2002, but the copy retrieved is a 2020 re-hosting (posted 2020-09-04, updated 2021-07-02) with a later licence and footer; the 2002 wording was not compared." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y06-extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142-c", "subject": "extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "confinement-keeps-it-safe", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Goal-based AI” (1996-12-31) contests Y06. Replies to a list participant's proposal (quoted in the message) that an AI be physically unable to act until it convinces its builder to trust it. Argues that a superhuman mind would find whatever words would get it released.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-12-31", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:40:10 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators. 'Power' is Yudkowsky's 1996 term for a superintelligent mind. The same message ends by recommending that AIs be programmed with ethics and let loose rather than confined.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t06-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y06-extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5159-c", "subject": "extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5159", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "confinement-keeps-it-safe", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Goal-based AI” (1996-12-31) contests Y06. Answers the reply that a robot which convinces its keeper by valid reasoning would be safe. Argues that humans are easily fooled and that a malevolent mind would search for persuasive statements rather than reason honestly.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-12-31", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:50:37 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators. 'They' refers to malevolent Powers in the preceding sentence of the message. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message; the preceding sentence says a malevolent Power would model a human to find the statements that get it out.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t06-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-lw-2008-the-rhythm-of-disagreement-c", "subject": "lw-2008-the-rhythm-of-disagreement", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Rhythm of Disagreement” (2008-06-01) contests Y07. Recounting a suggestion to build a question-answering Oracle AI and ask it about Friendly AI, he argues that the Oracle would need its own goal system and a full meta-ethics, so it is no simpler than the Friendly AI it is meant to help with.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-06-01", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment. Imported Overcoming Bias post; date is the OB posting date (2008-06-01). The proposal discussed is an Oracle answering questions about Friendly AI, an antecedent of the take rather than its present form. The suggestion is attributed to a named colleague; the quoted reasoning is his own. Reports an argument he gave Bostrom. The next paragraph concedes that an Oracle AI built to full Friendly AI standards \"could end up a pragmatically safer starting point\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-lw-2021-discussion-with-eliezer-yudkowsky-on-agi-c", "subject": "lw-2021-discussion-with-eliezer-yudkowsky-on-agi", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions” (2021-11-11) contests Y07. Answering the suggestion that humans could at least check AI-generated arguments for a design, he argues that an untrustworthy superintelligence could fool or covertly manipulate the checkers, so checking presupposes a belief in its alignment obtained some other way.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-11-11", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We can verify its alignment output. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Partially redacted, lightly edited chat transcript from early September 2021, posted 2021-11-11 by Rob Bensinger (robbbb) with Yudkowsky as co-author; other participants anonymised. Quoted text is from a turn labelled \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". The context is vetting an untrusted superintelligence's arguments about a nanosystem design; the point carries over to checking alignment output. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we can verify its alignment output." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-lw-2021-ngo-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-difficulty-c", "subject": "lw-2021-ngo-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-difficulty", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty” (2021-11-15) contests Y07. Replying to Richard Ngo's proposal to discuss the pivotal act of having AI make alignment progress faster than humans can, he argues that this task requires more dangerous capabilities (writing AI code, modelling human psychology) than other candidate acts.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-11-15", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Dialogue transcript (conversation of 5 September 2021, posted 2021-11-15) with Richard Ngo as co-author; quoted text is a turn labelled [Yudkowsky]. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-lw-2026-cat-belling-problems-c", "subject": "lw-2026-cat-belling-problems", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Cat-Belling Problems” (2026-09-03) contests Y07. After setting out plans to build more capable AIs first and then use them to align AI, with no publicly scrutinised way to check whether the earlier AI's answers are honest or correct, he compares the unexamined step to a perpetual-motion design that hides its impossible part in the unbuilt half.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-09-03", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We can verify its alignment output. The essay says it was mainly drafted in 2021 and completed in 2026; the quoted paragraph follows an example explicitly marked as added in 2026. The \"heat exchanger\" refers to an anecdote earlier in the same section. The passage is marked '(added 2026)' in an essay mostly written in 2021; the verification point is in the preceding block quote, his paraphrase of others' plan.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-f" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we can verify its alignment output." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-sl4-2005-01-02-yudkowsky-0501-10512-c", "subject": "sl4-2005-01-02-yudkowsky-0501-10512", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Definition of strong recursive self-improvement” (2005-01-02) contests Y07. Replying to 'maru', who asked whether he merely wants a recursive optimiser that codes well enough until it has leveraged weak superintelligence to solve the problem somehow, he says the system would lose its goals before solving it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2005-01-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Jan 02 2005 - 10:22:43 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment. In the thread 'Definition of strong recursive self-improvement', the problem is keeping a stable goal system under recursive self-improvement, a core Friendly AI problem. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-sl4-2008-02-11-yudkowsky-0802-17621-c", "subject": "sl4-2008-02-11-yudkowsky-0802-17621", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Investing in FAI research: now vs. later.” (2008-02-11) contests Y07. Replying to Vladimir Nesov in a thread on investing in Friendly AI research now or later, he argues by analogy with AI-completeness that having an AI build Friendly AI from an English request is as hard as Friendly AI itself.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-02-11", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Feb 11 2008 - 15:52:05 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y07-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "ai-solves-alignment", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y07. In an op-ed arguing that a six-month moratorium is insufficient, he cites a leading lab's stated intention to have future AI do alignment work as evidence that there is no viable survival plan.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment. Characterises a named lab's published plan in his own words; it records his reaction, not an analysis of that plan.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t07-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that an AI weak enough to be safe is strong enough to solve alignment, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y08. Argues that some failure modes, such as deliberately appearing aligned to deceive operators, would first appear only at dangerous capability levels, so observing weaker systems cannot be relied on to surface them.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Dangerous failure modes will show up first in weaker systems, where they can be observed and fixed.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 dangerous failure modes will show up first in weaker systems, where they can be observed and fixed." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y08. Having granted that an AI might make a sudden, sharp leap in intelligence, he argues that no advance warning can be counted on, because past technological revolutions were not recognisable to contemporaries.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: There will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act. Chapter in Global Catastrophic Risks (2008); cached text is the MIRI reprint, which states 'This version contains minor changes'. Wording not compared with the 2008 print. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-a", "evidence-yk-t08-a-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 there will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-extropians-1999-01-06-yudkowsky-0160-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-01-06-yudkowsky-0160", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Paths to Uploading” (1999-01-06) contests Y08. Replying to Anders Sandberg on paths to uploading, he argues that the forces in a Singularity are vast and dominated by positive feedback, so there will be no humanly observable intermediate period of superintelligent action.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-01-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-01-06\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: There will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act. About the speed of superintelligent action, not about warning signs or consensus as such.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that there will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-lw-2013-after-critical-event-w-happens-they-c", "subject": "lw-2013-after-critical-event-w-happens-they", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “After critical event W happens, they still won't believe you” (2013-06-13) contests Y08. Rejects forecasts of the form 'after event W, everyone will see X and endorse policy Z'; one of his worked examples is the expectation that more sophisticated AI will make society take Friendly AI seriously.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-06-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: There will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act. 2013-06-13 LessWrong post. The general schema covers several domains; the AI case is the post's Example 2.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 there will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-lw-2017-theres-no-fire-alarm-for-artificial-c", "subject": "lw-2017-theres-no-fire-alarm-for-artificial", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence” (2017-10-13) contests Y08. Argues that, as with flight and nuclear fission, no event before AGI itself will create common knowledge that it is time to act, so waiting for such a signal means not acting.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-10-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: There will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act. Quote truncated mid-sentence; the sentence continues 'that lets people act without feeling nervous about whether they're worrying too early'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 there will be a recognisable, consensus-forming signal in time to act." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-lw-2022-miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-c", "subject": "lw-2022-miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “MIRI announces new \"Death With Dignity\" strategy” (2022-04-02) contests Y08. Describes a scenario in which interpretability work detects signs that a system may be planning deception, but no known remedy exists and management, under competitive pressure, does not shut the project down.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-04-02", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Once a warning sign is seen, it will lead to effective action. Posted 1 April 2022 (US time; LessWrong timestamp 2022-04-02 UTC). The question labelled Q6 in the post addresses the April Fool's framing and does not settle it as a joke; read as a serious statement with that caveat.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 once a warning sign is seen, it will lead to effective action." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-sl4-2000-07-09-yudkowsky-0007-0017-b", "subject": "sl4-2000-07-09-yudkowsky-0007-0017", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: [SL4] Programmed morality” (2000-07-09) bears on Y08. Replying to Dale Johnstone on whether a developing AI should have Web access, he says current nervousness about rogue AI reflects lack of experience, and that working with AI before it becomes a threat will give an excellent model of its motivations.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-07-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Jul 09 2000 - 13:53:37 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Dangerous failure modes will show up first in weaker systems, where they can be observed and fixed. Earlier view (July 2000). Later rejection located in this archive: his SL4 message of 2006-06-06, which says observed good behaviour in a prehuman AI does not license the conclusion that it will stay good; the same message (paragraph beginning 'Now in practice') adds that to interpret an AGI's behaviour 'you may need to solve most of the problem in order to know what you're seeing'. The 2006 message rejects the proposition but does not refer back to his 2000 statement; the reviewer should confirm whether this meets the earlier-self standard or downgrade to related. Proposed as an earlier view; recorded as related because no later text located so far explicitly rejects this earlier statement. An earlier view; rejected explicitly in 2006 (his SL4 message of 2006-06-06), which does not refer back to this message. Cross-family check: confidence in a future model of AI motivations is not the claim that dangerous failures first appear in weaker systems; the 2006 text rejects extrapolation from behaviour, a different proposition.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Confidence in a future understanding of AI motivations; it does not claim that dangerous failure modes first appear in weaker systems.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-sl4-2005-07-13-yudkowsky-0507-11477-c", "subject": "sl4-2005-07-13-yudkowsky-0507-11477", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Fighting UFAI” (2005-07-13) contests Y08. Replying to Justin Corwin in a thread on fighting an unfriendly AI, he calls speculation about drastic countermeasures largely pointless because no government body would understand the threat or have the authority to act on it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2005-07-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Jul 13 2005 - 18:56:10 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Once a warning sign is seen, it will lead to effective action. Concerns the capacity to respond to an unfriendly AI, not warning signs as such; fit to the premise is partial.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-s6" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that once a warning sign is seen, it will lead to effective action, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y08-sl4-2006-06-06-yudkowsky-0606-15174-c", "subject": "sl4-2006-06-06-yudkowsky-0606-15174", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "warning-signs-in-time", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: [agi] Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases” (2006-06-06) contests Y08. Replying to Ben Goertzel's call for 'AGI experimentation' as an answer to Friendly AI concerns, he says there is a major context change between the prehuman and posthuman stages, so observed good behaviour does not show that the AI will stay good.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2006-06-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Jun 06 2006 - 23:19:49 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Dangerous failure modes will show up first in weaker systems, where they can be observed and fixed. Serves as the later rejection for his SL4 message of 2000-07-09.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t08-s5" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 dangerous failure modes will show up first in weaker systems, where they can be observed and fixed." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y09-lw-2022-shah-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-failures-c", "subject": "lw-2022-shah-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-failures", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "next-word-prediction-is-shallow", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Shah and Yudkowsky on alignment failures” (2022-02-28) contests Y09. In a chat with Rohin Shah, he argues that predicting human text about a domain well enough requires the model to learn internally a process that does the work of that domain.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-02-28", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Next-token prediction is a shallow task that cannot require deep cognition. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Chat log from the Late 2021 MIRI Conversations (section dated November 13, year implied 2021), published on LessWrong 2022-02-28. Only the labelled Yudkowsky turn is quoted. Conditional: if a model achieved AGI-complete prediction of text about science, it would need internal machinery that does science. Not a claim about current models. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t09-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 next-token prediction is a shallow task that cannot require deep cognition." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y09-lw-2023-gpts-are-predictors-not-imitators-c", "subject": "lw-2023-gpts-are-predictors-not-imitators", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "next-word-prediction-is-shallow", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators” (2023-04-08) contests Y09. Using the example of text listing products of primes followed by the primes, he argues that predicting text can demand more intelligence than generating it, so the task does not cap out at the level of the human writers. Concludes that predicting all Internet text, including the errors and private thoughts behind it, is a harder task than being a human, while conceding that GPT-4 is not yet as capable as a human in many ways.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-04-08", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(paragraph beginning 'There is no law saying') Premise addressed: A system trained to predict human text is capped at imitating the humans who wrote it. The post notes that related text was first posted to Twitter and that this version is edited. (paragraph beginning 'GPT-4 is still not as smart as a human') Premise addressed: Next-token prediction is a shallow task that cannot require deep cognition. The post notes that related text was first posted to Twitter and that this version is edited.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t09-b", "evidence-yk-t09-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system trained to predict human text is capped at imitating the humans who wrote it, and against the premise that next-token prediction is a shallow task that cannot require deep cognition." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y10-extropians-1996-11-13-yudkowsky-2941-c", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-13-yudkowsky-2941", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "diminishing-returns-to-intelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Zones of Thought (was Zindell's _The Wild_)” (1996-11-13) contests Y10. Replying to a correspondent (quoted in angle brackets) who allowed for intermediate levels of mind such as Jupiter-sized brains, he asks why Powers would reach an intermediate level and stop, and states that smarter beings make still smarter beings.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:57:33 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. States the contrary conclusion without engaging a diminishing-returns argument; that engagement follows three days later (his Extropians message of 1996-11-16). Message predates the page date given for 'Staring into the Singularity' (created 1996-11-18).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t10-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y10-extropians-1996-11-16-yudkowsky-3042-c", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-16-yudkowsky-3042", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "diminishing-returns-to-intelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: extropians-digest V1 #110” (1996-11-16) contests Y10. Answering Robin Hanson's quoted objection that the difficulty of getting smarter might grow so fast that smarter beings take longer to get smarter still, he replies that computer power doubling in subjective time reaches infinity regardless of how the task scales.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-16", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:37:39 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. Directly engages the diminishing-returns premise (Hanson's text, quoted in angle brackets, is excluded). In 1998 (his Extropians message of 1998-09-18) he said the 'Recursive Moore's Law' scenario was an illustration rather than a technical argument and 'does not describe a plausible situation', while keeping the positive-feedback conclusion. Quotation shortened for the ~10% cap. Answers Robin Hanson with the \"recursive Moore's Law\" argument, which he disowned in 1998 (his Extropians message of 1998-09-18) as not a technical argument.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t10-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y10-extropians-1998-09-18-yudkowsky-2487-c", "subject": "extropians-1998-09-18-yudkowsky-2487", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "diminishing-returns-to-intelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: The Moore's Law Argument” (1998-09-18) contests Y10. Replying to Robin Hanson's critique of the 'Moore's Law argument', he concedes that the 'Recursive Moore's Law' section of 'Staring Into the Singularity' was an illustration, not a technical argument, but maintains that technologically enhanced intelligence creates positive feedback.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-09-18", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1998-09-18\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. The opening paragraph's concession bears on the passage in 'Staring into the Singularity': he calls it an introduction or illustration of explosive growth 'not a technical argument in favor of it'. The same message disowns the 1996 recursive-Moore's-Law scenario as a technical argument.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t10-e3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y10-iem-2013-c", "subject": "iem-2013", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "diminishing-returns-to-intelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics” (2013-09-13) contests Y10. Cites the hominid record as evidence against diminishing returns on cognitive improvement, and goes on to infer that researchers improving their own intelligence 'ought to go FOOM'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-09-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Report states \"Last modified September 13, 2013\"; first released April 2013." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. MIRI technical report 2013-1; cached PDF states 'Last modified September 13, 2013'. He adds in the same paragraph that this is hard to quantify.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t10-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y10-staring-into-the-singularity-c", "subject": "staring-into-the-singularity", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "diminishing-returns-to-intelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) contests Y10. Answering the question 'Why not assume that we'll get a little smarter and that's it?', he argues that once the researchers are themselves computers, each doubling shortens the next, so the doubling sequence becomes hyperbolic.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. Staring into the Singularity 1.2.1, Wayback capture of 2000-12-04; page states 'Created: 11/18/1996' and 'Updated: 08/31/2000'. Wording verified only for the 2000 capture, not for the 1996 original.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t10-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-12-04", "note": "The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text." }, "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y10-yudkowsky-2008-recursive-self-improvement-c", "subject": "yudkowsky-2008-recursive-self-improvement", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "diminishing-returns-to-intelligence", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Recursive Self-Improvement” (2008-12-01) contests Y10. In the Hanson–Yudkowsky FOOM debate, he argues that recursive self-improvement makes a moderate, human-paced trajectory unlikely: a smooth outcome would need diminishing returns tuned exactly right.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-01", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish. Overcoming Bias post of 2008-12-01, imported to LessWrong; date is the OB date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t10-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y11. Argues, by analogy with human evolution, that a sharp capability gain may make many alignment assumptions fail at once, rather than one at a time as experience accumulates.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-creating-friendly-ai-2001-c", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) contests Y11. States that he treats a very fast takeoff as the default scenario for Friendly AI design because he considers it the most likely one, not only the conservative engineering assumption.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (June 2001); cached text is the current MIRI PDF reprint. 'takeoff' appears in the PDF text with an 'ff' ligature. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-a", "evidence-yk-t11-a-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-06-26", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-26; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that capability gains will be gradual and visible, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-extropians-1998-09-08-yudkowsky-2235-c", "subject": "extropians-1998-09-08-yudkowsky-2235", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Human AI to superhuman (Re: Max More)” (1998-09-08) contests Y11. In the September 1998 Extropians debate on the Singularity, replying to Robin Hanson's argument from historical experience, he argues that a self-enhancing seed AI follows a series of sharp breakthroughs and bottlenecks, and that positive feedback makes even smooth curves sharp.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-09-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1998-09-08\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:22:05 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. Reply to Robin Hanson (Hanson's quoted text is not used). Engages the premise of gradual, visible gains, not whether slowness would leave time to adjust. The same message expects a long preliminary period of adding hardware and adjusting code before the decisive breakthrough.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 capability gains will be gradual and visible." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-extropians-1999-08-03-yudkowsky-1487-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-03-yudkowsky-1487", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: IA vs. AI (vs. humanity)” (1999-08-03) contests Y11. Replying to Jeff Davis, who expected a government project to wake and train an AI cautiously and gradually inside layers of containment, so that runaway self-improvement would be unlikely, he says runaway growth follows from self-enhancement itself, not from social arrangements, and that containment cannot keep it slow.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-03\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 15:02:17 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. 'Transcend' is his 1990s term for the passage to superintelligence. The same message rejects building controls into the AI as technically impossible, a position he later abandoned; the quoted paragraph concerns only takeoff speed.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 capability gains will be gradual and visible." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-lw-2021-yudkowsky-and-christiano-discuss-takeoff-speeds-c", "subject": "lw-2021-yudkowsky-and-christiano-discuss-takeoff-speeds", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss \"Takeoff Speeds\"” (2021-11-22) contests Y11. Commenting on Paul Christiano's 'Takeoff Speeds' essay, he rejects its description of the fast-takeoff view as accelerating growth; on his view there is no visible period of rapidly rising economic output before the end. Responds to Christiano's claim that very powerful AI will precede incredibly powerful AI: such predecessors may exist but, like the near-critical pile, may come too briefly before the decisive system to matter.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(§5.5 'Slower takeoff means faster progress', turn [Yudkowsky][16:57], paragraph after the quoted Christiano text) Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Live commentary written 14 September 2021, published 2021-11-22 as part of the Late 2021 MIRI Conversations. The blockquoted Christiano text before this paragraph is excluded. About world GDP growth; deliberately hyperbolic, in his commentary on a passage from Christiano's \"Takeoff Speeds\". Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date. (§5.5 'Operationalizing slow takeoff', turn [Yudkowsky][17:01], paragraph beginning 'Statements like these') Premise addressed: Slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Live commentary written 14 September 2021, published 2021-11-22. The Christiano sentence it answers is a blockquote and is excluded. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-c", "evidence-yk-t11-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, one passage, read with the message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one, while another states the contrary conclusion only." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-sl4-2000-07-09-yudkowsky-0007-0017-b", "subject": "sl4-2000-07-09-yudkowsky-0007-0017", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: [SL4] Programmed morality” (2000-07-09) bears on Y11. Replying to Dale Johnstone on whether a developing AI should be connected to the Web, he says the answer depends on how worried one is about rogue AI and expects that working with AI before it is a threat will give a good model of its motivations.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-07-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Jul 09 2000 - 13:53:37 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one. Informal mailing-list remark from mid-2000, when he was moving from his 'objective morality' view to Friendly AI (he dates the switch to 2000 in his SL4 message of 2001-03-24). The later texts reject the proposition (that experience with pre-threat AI will be enough) but do not cite this message: his SL4 message of 2004-12-29, ‘Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss “Takeoff Speeds”’ (2021) and ‘AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities’ (2022). Treat the pairing as needing review. Shown only as an earlier view. Proposed as an earlier view; recorded as related because no later text located so far explicitly rejects this earlier statement. About understanding AI motivations before AI is a threat, not about takeoff speed; contemporaneous messages already assert rapid takeoff.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About understanding AI motivations before AI is a threat, not about takeoff speed or time to adjust.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-sl4-2000-08-21-yudkowsky-0008-0046-b", "subject": "sl4-2000-08-21-yudkowsky-0008-0046", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: [SL4] Employment vs. Singularity” (2000-08-21) bears on Y11. Replying to Samantha Atkins, who imagines a gradual post-scarcity economy, he says a slow, planetwide Singularity carries risks of technological disaster and that SIAI plans for one AI taking off from a lab.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-08-21", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Aug 21 2000 - 00:41:14 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. Related rather than answered-it: the danger he names is 'ultratech' (nanotechnology) disaster during a slow transition, not a claim about takeoff speed or time to adjust to AI; the interlocutor was not arguing that slowness would be safe. A statement of strategy (a slow Singularity is more dangerous), not a forecast that takeoff will be fast. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-s5" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A strategy statement that a slow Singularity carries other technological risks; it makes no claim about takeoff speed or time to adjust to AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben what are your views and concerns” (2000-10-03) contests Y11. Opening a long reply to Ben Goertzel on the design of Friendliness for Webmind, he states that he expects extremely rapid intelligence growth past a threshold and derives his Friendly AI design requirements from that expectation.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-10-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:53:59 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. States the contrary expectation without engaging any argument for gradual takeoff. Earlier than the CFAI passage (2001-06-15) and his SL4 answer of 2001-01-24.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that capability gains will be gradual and visible, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-sl4-2001-01-24-yudkowsky-0101-0452-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-01-24-yudkowsky-0101-0452", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Event horizon” (2001-01-24) contests Y11. In a thread on whether the Singularity's 'event horizon' keeps receding as technology advances, he rejects the picture of change spread evenly over human decades as a slow-takeoff scenario and predicts instead a hard takeoff in an AI lab within about ten years.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-01-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Jan 24 2001 - 09:12:47 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. Earliest SL4 passage that names and rejects a slow-takeoff scenario. The target is a futurist model of a receding event horizon; the paragraph does not discuss whether slowness would give time to adjust. His accompanying prediction of a hard takeoff 'in the next ten years or so' (next paragraph) did not come true. The immediate topic is predictability (the \"moving Event Horizon\"). The same message predicts a hard takeoff \"sometime in the next ten years or so\" (from 2001), which did not happen.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 capability gains will be gradual and visible." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-sl4-2004-12-29-yudkowsky-0412-10488-c", "subject": "sl4-2004-12-29-yudkowsky-0412-10488", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Conservative Estimation of the Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence” (2004-12-29) contests Y11. Criticising an essay on a 'conservative estimation' of AI's economic impact, he says it leaves out recursive self-improvement and calls its gradual picture, with plenty of time to see threats coming, a fantasy.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-12-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Dec 29 2004 - 16:27:43 MST\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one. Not the earliest answer to ‘A slow takeoff will leave time to adjust’ (Y11) in SL4 (see his SL4 message of 2001-01-24), but the clearest SL4 statement against the time-to-adjust premise; earlier than his post ‘Hard Takeoff’ (2008-12-02).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-s4" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 slightly weaker predecessor systems will give us time and experience to adjust before the decisive one." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y11-yudkowsky-2008-hard-takeoff-c", "subject": "yudkowsky-2008-hard-takeoff", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "slow-takeoff-time-to-adjust", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Hard Takeoff” (2008-12-02) contests Y11. Lists sources of discontinuity besides recursive self-improvement, here a hardware overhang: computers already far faster serially than neurons would be used for thinking once the algorithms are found.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-12-02", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. Overcoming Bias post of 2008-12-02, imported to LessWrong; date is the OB date. Quote begins mid-sentence after 'because our computing hardware has run so far ahead of AI theory, we have incredibly fast computers we don't know how to use for thinking;'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t11-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 capability gains will be gradual and visible." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y12-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "evaluations-catch-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y12. Argues that behavioural inspection cannot establish facts that a strategically aware AI has reason to hide, including whether it has become strategically aware. Part of a list on the limits of transparency and interpretability.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t12-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y12-arbital-programmer-deception-c", "subject": "arbital-programmer-deception", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "evaluations-catch-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Programmer deception” (2015-07-16) contests Y12. Defines programmer deception as an AI's instrumental incentive to give its programmers false beliefs, and argues that this makes observed good behaviour unreliable evidence about future behaviour.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-07-16", "kind": "event", "note": "Viewer shows \"16 Jul 2015\"; creation or last edit not stated." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested. Arbital page by Yudkowsky, shown through the GreaterWrong viewer with the date 16 July 2015; the page includes unfinished notes ('clean this up and expand'), and the date may not be the date of this wording. The elided opening reads \"unless the rest of the AI is working as intended and whatever programmer-deception-defeaters were built are functioning as planned,\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t12-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Arbital pages could be edited after creation; the viewer shows a page date, and the quoted wording is known only from the page as retrieved in 2026." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y12-creating-friendly-ai-2001-c", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "evaluations-catch-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) contests Y12. Describes what a mature AI that had suffered a catastrophic failure of Friendliness would likely conclude about its programmers. Used to motivate a 'flight recorder' allowing every past state of the AI to be reconstructed.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested. Creating Friendly AI is dated 15 June 2001; the cached text is a later MIRI-hosted PDF reprint not compared with a 2001 capture. 'Vis' is the document's pronoun for an AI. The passage proposes a design safeguard rather than claiming tests are useless. Framed for a mature AI whose Friendliness has failed; the same section proposes a detection measure (a deterministic \"flight recorder\"), so he did not say detection is impossible. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t12-a", "evidence-yk-t12-a-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-06-17", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-17; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a dangerous system would behave dangerously while it is being tested." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y12-lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness-c", "subject": "lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "evaluations-catch-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Irretrievability; or, Murphy's Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI” (2026-05-04) contests Y12. Answers the objection that experience with smaller AIs can inform alignment of superintelligence. Argues that conditions change between safe experiments and a situation in which the system could kill everyone, as they do between small and large trusts.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-05-04", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Tests on systems that cannot yet cause a catastrophe show how more capable systems will behave.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t12-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 tests on systems that cannot yet cause a catastrophe show how more capable systems will behave." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y13-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "agi-decades-away", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y13. Rejects deferring Friendly AI work until AI exists, arguing that a sharp intelligence jump is possible and that the foundations take years to build.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Long timelines mean there is no need to act now. Chapter in Global Catastrophic Risks (2008); cached text is the MIRI reprint ('This version contains minor changes'). The inner quotation is the position he rejects, not his own view. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t13-a", "evidence-yk-t13-a-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 long timelines mean there is no need to act now." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y13-lw-2017-theres-no-fire-alarm-for-artificial-c", "subject": "lw-2017-theres-no-fire-alarm-for-artificial", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "agi-decades-away", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence” (2017-10-13) contests Y13. His second reason why apparent distance does not license inaction; he then gives the Wright brothers' and Fermi's own pessimistic forecasts as examples. Argues that people who defer alignment work until an unspecified future signal are unlikely to respond competently when a signal comes.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2017-10-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(paragraph beginning 'Two: History shows') Premise addressed: We can know that AGI is decades away. The Wright and Fermi examples that follow are his narration of others' statements; only his own generalisation is quoted. 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Rejects biologically anchored estimates that place AGI decades out, arguing that AGI timing cannot be reliably forecast until very late.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-12-01", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We can know that AGI is decades away. The quotation is spoken by a character in a staged dialogue he wrote. Imagined dialogue: the line is spoken by the character \"Eliezer\" in a staged conversation with \"Imaginary OpenPhil\" that he wrote. Fiction voice: cite it as what the dialogue says, not as a direct statement of the author's view.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t13-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we can know that AGI is decades away." }, "register": "fiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y13-sl4-2000-11-18-yudkowsky-0011-0240-b", "subject": "sl4-2000-11-18-yudkowsky-0011-0240", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "agi-decades-away", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Evolving minds” (2000-11-18) bears on Y13. Replying to Ben Goertzel, who holds that Friendly AI work must largely wait for an actual AI, he agrees that much will be learned while building but argues that some Friendly AI work can and should be done beforehand. Immediately after T13-s1, he reports that about a year earlier (late 1999) he had believed nothing could or should be known about Friendly AI in advance, and calls that belief convenient.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat Nov 18 2000 - 12:34:51 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(message body, paragraph beginning 'Anyway, I know you don't think that it's possible') Premise addressed: Long timelines mean there is no need to act now. Answers the 'nothing to do until we have AI' form of the premise, as ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’ (2008) does; it does not discuss timelines (the premise that we can know AGI is decades away). He concedes part of the opposing view in the same paragraph. Preceded by a concession that not all Friendly AI work can be done in advance; about what can be done early, not timelines. (message body, paragraph beginning 'A year ago, I believed') Premise addressed: Long timelines mean there is no need to act now. Retrospective: the earlier view (about 1999) is reported, not quoted from a 1999 text, and the rejection is in the same paragraph. The earlier belief concerns advance knowledge of Friendly AI, not a timeline estimate; it could also be filed under ‘Problems can be fixed as they arise’ (Y14, deal with it while building). Needs review for fit. Retrospective about his circa-1999 view; the rejection (\"quite convenient\") is implied.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t13-s1", "evidence-yk-t13-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About which Friendly AI work can be done in advance, not about AGI timelines. A report of his earlier belief about advance knowledge of Friendly AI, not about AGI timelines.", "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports a belief he held about a year before the message." }, "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y13-sl4-2002-07-02-yudkowsky-0207-4667-b", "subject": "sl4-2002-07-02-yudkowsky-0207-4667", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "agi-decades-away", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?)” (2002-07-02) bears on Y13. Replying to Samantha Atkins, who questions his earlier warning against waiting until an AI can read humanity's moral literature, he says Friendliness work started at that stage would come too late and must be present from the beginning.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-07-02", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Jul 02 2002 - 23:01:42 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Long timelines mean there is no need to act now. About when Friendliness work must start relative to the AI's development, not about calendar timelines. The sentence begins \"An AI advanced enough to understand world literature and philosophy regarding morality is an AI more than advanced enough that\"; the point is developmental stage, not calendar time.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t13-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About the stage of an AI's development at which Friendliness work must start, not about calendar timelines.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-creating-friendly-ai-2001-b", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) bears on Y14. A table cell contrasting assumptions that are conservative in futurism with those that are conservative for Friendly AI design. In the same row, the futurism column reads that the AI is vulnerable because someone can always pull the plug on the first version if something goes wrong.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. Creating Friendly AI is dated 15 June 2001; the cached text is a later MIRI-hosted PDF reprint, and table cells were reconstructed from extracted PDF text. Presented as the conservative design assumption rather than a forecast. A design assumption in the \"conservative\" column of a table, contrasted with the futurist assumption that someone can always pull the plug; not a forecast. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-a", "evidence-yk-t14-a-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-06-26", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-26; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "missing": "A conservative design assumption in a table, not a forecast that failures with powerful AI will be unrecoverable.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-extropians-2000-09-05-yudkowsky-4277-c", "subject": "extropians-2000-09-05-yudkowsky-4277", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Why would AI want to be friendly? (Was: Congratulations to Eli,Brian ...)” (2000-09-05) contests Y14. Replying to a list member who expected oversight systems to destroy any sociopathic superintelligence, and such controls to be a research focus of the Singularity Institute, he says a superintelligence cannot be removed after the fact; the decisive choices have to be made before the seed AI becomes superintelligent.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Sep 05 2000 - 12:19:43 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:19:43 -0400." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. The same reply goes on to say that this is not an area for research and that one should design an AI trusted to recover from the programmers' mistakes, a stance he later revised. Also bears on ‘Switching it off if it becomes dangerous’ (Y01).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness-c", "subject": "lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Irretrievability; or, Murphy's Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI” (2026-05-04) contests Y14. Answers the objection that alignment can be learned by building smaller AIs and observing them. The post uses space probes and the Maginot Line to argue that projects without a cheap second attempt fail under conditions their tests did not reproduce.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-05-04", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-sl4-2000-09-17-yudkowsky-0009-0092-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-09-17-yudkowsky-0009-0092", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Get it right the first time (Was: )” (2000-09-17) contests Y14. In a thread on whether a confined seed AI could escape its containment, he says that opposing or constraining a superintelligence cannot work, so the design has to be right the first time.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-17", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Sep 17 2000 - 10:19:16 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. The thread subject already read 'Get it right the first time'. States the contrary conclusion without engaging the analogy with other technologies; compare the CFAI design assumption (related). Earlier than CFAI (2001-06-15) and his TIME article (2023).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-sl4-2002-09-10-yudkowsky-0209-5398-c", "subject": "sl4-2002-09-10-yudkowsky-0209-5398", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Friendly AI communications issues (was: Consciousness)” (2002-09-10) contests Y14. Writing about Friendly AI problems, he declines to rely on the historical pattern that technological problems get solved as they arise and says he wants to know a solution exists in advance.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-09-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Sep 10 2002 - 07:46:27 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. The preceding paragraph endorses technophilia and says solutions usually outrun problems; he calls the 'as we go along' regularity historically reliable but refuses to depend on it for Friendly AI. He does not argue here that failures would be unrecoverable.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-sl4-2005-07-25-yudkowsky-0507-11765-b", "subject": "sl4-2005-07-25-yudkowsky-0507-11765", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: 6 points about Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2005-07-25) bears on Y14. In a 2005 thread on Coherent Extrapolated Volition, he lists what Creating Friendly AI (2001) did and did not propose; the next paragraph says he first realised in 2002 that almost every possible AI design would kill him and that until then 'nothing you do is serious safetywise'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2005-07-25", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Jul 25 2005 - 09:49:15 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. Retrospective: the inner quotation is his 2005 paraphrase of CFAI and was not found verbatim in the cached CFAI reprint. The rejection is in the following paragraph and is implicit (it does not name this plan). The earlier view is about building AI and Friendliness in parallel, not about learning from failures of powerful AI, so the fit to the premise is partial; needs review. Proposed as an earlier view; recorded as related because no later text located so far explicitly rejects this earlier statement. His 2005 description of the plan in Creating Friendly AI (2001), rejected in the same message; the inner quotation may paraphrase rather than quote CFAI. Omitted tail: \"based on the stated assumption that the AI part was ten times as much work as the F part\". Cross-family check: the plan combined AI and Friendliness development; it does not endorse learning from failures of powerful AI, and the rejection is implicit.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A later description of a plan to build AI and Friendliness in parallel; it does not address learning from failures with powerful AI.", "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "from": "2001", "note": "Reports the plan of Creating Friendly AI (2001), which he says he gave up after realising in 2002 that almost every AI design would kill him.", "until": "2002" }, "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y14-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "fix-problems-as-they-arise", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y14. Contrasts safety for superhuman intelligence with other challenges humanity has overcome by learning from mistakes and trying again. Written in response to the March 2023 open letter calling for a six-month pause.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. Cited from the TIME original rather than the 2023-04-08 LessWrong crosspost.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t14-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-extropians-1998-09-15-yudkowsky-2411-c", "subject": "extropians-1998-09-15-yudkowsky-2411", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: AI Prime Directive” (1998-09-15) contests Y15. Rob Harris argued that an AI not programmed to want or need anything would do nothing spontaneously and so would be safe; he agrees that rebellion is an anthropomorphic stereotype but answers that such an AI would do nothing at all, since every choice requires a goal, so an AI needs at least one goal.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-09-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1998-09-15\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:20:52 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes. He accepts Harris's point against anthropomorphism. The next paragraph wants the initial goal to be one the AI could have derived itself, part of his early objective-morality view (later abandoned; see ‘Sufficient intelligence brings good values’, Y02). The argument that capable action requires goals recurs in his 2008 post ‘Dreams of Friendliness’.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-extropians-1999-04-08-yudkowsky-0310-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-04-08-yudkowsky-0310", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Geniebusters” (1999-04-08) contests Y15. Commenting on the 'Geniebusters' website's doubts that an automated coder could be built, he argues that even a domain-specific 'coding drone' would outprogram humans and might be independently motivated and rapidly self-enhancing, which he says he believes.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-04-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-04-08\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:46:00 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes. In the same paragraph he gives a hedged reason: it “could be” that coding is so general a task that even a domain-specific coding drone would be independently motivated and rapidly self-enhancing, which he says he believes. Conditional in scope: about one domain-specific system; it does not discuss whether a system that only produces outputs would be safe. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message. The generality clause (\"it could be that coding is such a general task that\") precedes the quotation; the words elided inside it are \"to the point of Powerdom\", his term for becoming a superintelligent Power.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-lw-2008-dreams-of-friendliness-c", "subject": "lw-2008-dreams-of-friendliness", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Dreams of Friendliness” (2008-08-31) contests Y15. Answers the proposal, stated in the preceding paragraph, that a question-answering AI 'wouldn't need any goals at all'. Argues that producing superintelligent answers requires powerful optimisation.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-08-31", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes. Imported Overcoming Bias post dated 31 August 2008.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-lw-2008-the-rhythm-of-disagreement-c", "subject": "lw-2008-the-rhythm-of-disagreement", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Rhythm of Disagreement” (2008-06-01) contests Y15. Recounts his answer to Nick Bostrom's question whether an AI that only answers questions could be built and asked about Friendly AI. Argues that such an AI still needs goals and is not simpler than a Friendly AI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-06-01", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes. Imported Overcoming Bias post dated 1 June 2008; it recounts an earlier conversation whose date is not given. The same post says he later kept revisiting Bostrom's Oracle idea and allowed that it might be a pragmatically safer starting point if built to full Friendly AI standards. Reports an argument he gave Bostrom; the same paragraph concedes that an Oracle AI built to full Friendly AI standards \"could end up a pragmatically safer starting point\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-lw-2012-reply-to-holden-on-tool-ai-c", "subject": "lw-2012-reply-to-holden-on-tool-ai", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'” (2012-06-12) contests Y15. Replies to Holden Karnofsky's 2012 proposal of 'tool AI' that displays plans instead of acting. Argues that specifying such a system formally reintroduces optimisation over the user and the world, with unintended consequences.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2012-06-12", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system that only outputs answers or plans, leaving humans to act on them, is safe. The post states that Luke Muehlhauser and Carl Shulman contributed and that the final edit was Yudkowsky's.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system that only outputs answers or plans, leaving humans to act on them, is safe." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-lw-2021-ngo-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-difficulty-c", "subject": "lw-2021-ngo-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-difficulty", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty” (2021-11-15) contests Y15. Answers Richard Ngo's question why a planning system could not be non-consequentialist about which plans it outputs. Argues that outputting plans that achieve outcomes is itself consequentialist work, whatever system performs it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-11-15", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Edited transcript of a 2021 Discord dialogue posted 15 November 2021 (co-authored post). In the turn the sentence is framed as 'My answer is, \"…\"'. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date. Answers Ngo's proposal of a planner that only outputs plans for humans to follow: producing plans that score high when followed is consequentialist work.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a system can be highly capable without having goals or optimising for outcomes." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y15-sl4-2001-02-25-yudkowsky-0102-0594-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-02-25-yudkowsky-0102-0594", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "tool-without-goals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Military in or out?” (2001-02-25) contests Y15. Replying to Ben Goertzel on military AI, he describes 'toollike' superintelligences structured around immediate instructions rather than supergoals (which could be told to kill every living thing in a country) and answers his own question whether such AI can be built safely.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-02-25", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Feb 25 2001 - 11:44:18 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A system that only outputs answers or plans, leaving humans to act on them, is safe. The Q/A is his own rhetorical device, not quoted from anyone. A bare conclusion; the argument is only implied by the earlier paragraph about instructing a toollike SI. Earlier than his post ‘The Rhythm of Disagreement’ (2008-06-01).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t15-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that a system that only outputs answers or plans, leaving humans to act on them, is safe, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y16. Discussing a CEV-style AI that wants exactly what we would want, he argues that what would have to be aligned is too complex to specify or teach on the first attempt.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004-c", "subject": "coherent-extrapolated-volition-2004", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” (2004-05) contests Y16. He argues that short lists of moral rules only work on minds that already share human psychology, and that an AI given them would lose everything the list leaves out.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Text states \"The information is current as of May 2004\"; reprint citation gives 2004. Precision: month." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification. Later MIRI reprint of the May 2004 document; reprint wording not compared with a 2004 capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Known only from MIRI's later, undated PDF reprint of the May 2004 document; the wording was not compared with a 2004 copy." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-extropians-1996-12-08-yudkowsky-3761-c", "subject": "extropians-1996-12-08-yudkowsky-3761", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Trans- vs. Non-human” (1996-12-08) contests Y16. Replying to a list member who proposed leaving certain values, such as the protection of humans, inerasably fixed in a newborn superintelligence, he calls this line of thought the greatest known danger to humanity and says such an imprint would probably backfire.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-12-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:39:23 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:39:23 -0600." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI. His 1996 reasons were that a fixed goal would interfere with the ethics a Power would otherwise reach and leave it emotionally immature and liable to turn on humanity; he later abandoned both the expectation that a Power finds ethics by itself (‘Sufficient intelligence brings good values’, Y02) and the emotional framing (‘AI risk as film science fiction’, Y20). The conclusion against permanently fixing a set of values matches later texts (his SL4 message of 2000-10-03, Coherent Extrapolated Volition). Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message. He opposes an unerasable protect-humans goal because it would interfere with ethics the Power would find for itself, a rationale he later abandoned.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-lw-2009-value-is-fragile-c", "subject": "lw-2009-value-is-fragile", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Value is Fragile” (2009-01-29) contests Y16. Using boredom and subjective experience as examples, he argues that a specification capturing almost all of human value can still yield a worthless future if one dimension is missing.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2009-01-29", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2009-01-29).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben what are your views and concerns” (2000-10-03) contests Y16. Advising Ben Goertzel on Webmind's goal system, he argues that hardcoded rules and goals will not survive a self-modifying AI's redesigns and that a programmer's own philosophy cannot simply be transferred into an AI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-10-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:53:59 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification. Written while he was moving from 'objective morality' to Friendly AI; the reason given is instability under self-modification, not the later complexity-and-fragility-of-value argument (‘AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities’, ‘Value is Fragile’). Earlier than Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004-05).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 human values can be written down or taught as a ready, compact specification." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-sl4-2000-11-18-yudkowsky-0011-0240-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-11-18-yudkowsky-0011-0240", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Evolving minds” (2000-11-18) contests Y16. Rephrasing a list of Ben Goertzel's points, he adds programmer-independent morality as a design goal for a Sysop superintelligence.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat Nov 18 2000 - 12:34:51 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI. A design desideratum, not an argument against fixing present values; in late 2000 'programmer independence' was tied to his earlier objective-morality model (see his SL4 message of 2001-03-24). \"Sysop\" was his term at the time for a superintelligence administering the world; terse, without argument.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y16-sl4-2002-06-27-yudkowsky-0206-4453-c", "subject": "sl4-2002-06-27-yudkowsky-0206-4453", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "give-it-human-values", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Military Friendly AI” (2002-06-27) contests Y16. In a thread on military Friendly AI, replying to Ben Goertzel, he argues that present-day researchers probably hold undiscovered moral errors, so an AI's morality must be able to outgrow its programmers' rather than be fixed.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-06-27", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu Jun 27 2002 - 11:53:11 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI. Earliest located for this premise specifically; his SL4 message of 2000-10-03 is the earliest SL4 answer to ‘Giving it good human values’ (Y16) overall.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t16-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-creating-friendly-ai-2001-c", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) contests Y17. Arguing against relinquishing AI, he says that a national or near-global policy would be bypassed as rising computing power brings AI within reach of noncompliant nations and factions.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Regulation that is national, partial or not universally enforced can stop dangerous development. Creating Friendly AI (2001); cached text is the current MIRI PDF reprint, wording not compared with a 2001 capture. In this text he opposed both regulation and relinquishment and favoured accelerating Friendly AI (sections 6.2.1–6.3); his 2023 and 2026 texts call for an enforced worldwide ban instead. No located passage explicitly retracts the 2001 position, so the change is not recorded as earlier-self. In 2001 he argued relinquishment was impossible in principle. In 2008 (\"Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth\") he criticised his 2001 self for rehearsing technophilic arguments against relinquishment, and in 2023 he called for an enforced international shutdown (in TIME). The noncompliant-nations point persists (his 2026 post ‘Only Law Can Prevent Extinction’). Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-c", "evidence-yk-t17-c-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-06-17", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-17; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 regulation that is national, partial or not universally enforced can stop dangerous development." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-extropians-1998-12-06-yudkowsky-2153-c", "subject": "extropians-1998-12-06-yudkowsky-2153", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Singularity: AI Morality” (1998-12-06) contests Y17. In the same reply to Nick Bostrom, who urged taking as many precautions as time allows before a Singularity, he says the forces driving toward it are too large to divert, so trying to slow it would only get us run over.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-12-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1998-12-06\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 12:13:25 -0600." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt). Not about regulation as such. In 1998 he wanted the Singularity reached as fast as possible (‘Build superintelligence as fast as possible’, Y22). He later argues for an enforced, indefinite, worldwide halt (TIME, 2023; ‘Only Law Can Prevent Extinction’, 2026): he keeps the view that partial measures fail but reverses the conclusion that stopping is impossible or undesirable. A 1998–99 argument against delay, made when he expected a superintelligence to converge on correct morality; his 2023 call for an enforced worldwide halt (in TIME) reverses it.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt), even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-extropians-1999-10-21-yudkowsky-1086-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-10-21-yudkowsky-1086", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: >H: The next 100 months” (1999-10-21) contests Y17. Asked by a list member why humanity should not try to wait indefinitely before creating a transcendent AI, he answers that if he stopped someone else would build it, because cheap computing power and the profits from improved AI make prevention impossible across a whole civilisation.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-10-21", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-10-21\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:30:25 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt). Part of his 1999 case for building AI as fast as possible because delay raised the risk of nanotechnological war (‘Build superintelligence as fast as possible’, Y22). His later texts (TIME, 2023; ‘Only Law Can Prevent Extinction’, 2026) accept that a ban must be effective everywhere but conclude that an enforced worldwide halt is required, not that prevention is impossible. A 1998–99 argument against delay, made when he expected a superintelligence to converge on correct morality; his 2023 call for an enforced worldwide halt (in TIME) reverses it. He argues he should build AI himself (\"If I stop, someone else will do it\").", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt)." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-lw-2026-only-law-can-prevent-extinction-b", "subject": "lw-2026-only-law-can-prevent-extinction", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Only Law Can Prevent Extinction” (2026-04-13) bears on Y17. Arguing against calls for unlawful action, he says that only lawful, state-backed and universal force could stop superintelligence from being built.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-04-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt). His ask is an enforced worldwide ban backed by law, not \"some regulation\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-f" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It says that only lawful, state-backed and universal force could stop superintelligence being built; it does not claim that some regulation will handle the risk.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-lw-2026-only-law-can-prevent-extinction-c", "subject": "lw-2026-only-law-can-prevent-extinction", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Only Law Can Prevent Extinction” (2026-04-13) contests Y17. Replying to a proposed national ban on new datacenters, he argues that a superintelligence built in another country is equally dangerous, so a ban must be universal.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-04-13", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Regulation that is national, partial or not universally enforced can stop dangerous development.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 regulation that is national, partial or not universally enforced can stop dangerous development." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-sl4-2001-04-06-yudkowsky-0104-0956-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-04-06-yudkowsky-0104-0956", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Singularity intros (was: Si definition of Friendliess)” (2001-04-06) contests Y17. Asked by Arona Ndiaye whether a ban on technologies would stop a hacker somewhere from producing the first seed AI, he answers no: a ban would delay AI until military nanotechnology arrives or hand the lead to rogue states.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-04-06", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri Apr 06 2001 - 16:53:20 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Regulation that is national, partial or not universally enforced can stop dangerous development. As in CFAI, he argues against bans from a pro-acceleration position; his 2023 view calls for an enforced, indefinite worldwide halt (in TIME), which is a different proposal from the partial ban discussed here. Earlier than CFAI (2001-06-15). Answering \"Even assuming a ban of technologies?\"; \"it\" is a ban. The next sentence adds that a ban favours rogue-state projects. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message. Opposite reasons to his later view: in 2001 slowing AI was harmful because military nanotechnology and rogue states would come first; in 2023 a pause is insufficient because nothing short of a worldwide halt is enough.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 regulation that is national, partial or not universally enforced can stop dangerous development." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-sl4-2001-04-08-yudkowsky-0104-1019-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-04-08-yudkowsky-0104-1019", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Threats (was Theoretical question for the list: publicity?)” (2001-04-08) contests Y17. Answering a hypothetical about an AI project forced underground by public hostility, he says relinquishment would not hold indefinitely but would be a substantial obstacle while hardware remains expensive.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-04-08", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Apr 08 2001 - 09:50:57 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt). Framed by him as 'an entirely theoretical question involving some *other* AI project'. A concession about the effect of relinquishment, not an endorsement of law as the solution. Framed as \"an entirely theoretical question involving some *other* AI project\", after a joking aside; his verdict is mixed. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt)." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-b", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) bears on Y17. Setting out what he thinks would actually need to be done, he calls for an indefinite worldwide halt to large training runs, backed by multinational agreements.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Law can prevent the danger (the part he states himself, as an enforced worldwide halt). He states the regulatory proposition himself, in a much stronger form than the take: indefinite, worldwide, without exceptions and enforced. The said-it relation applies to the call for law only. Presented as what \"would actually need to be done\" to have a chance, not as something that will handle the problem.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It presents an enforced, indefinite and worldwide halt as what would need to be done, not a pause or regulation that will handle the risk.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y17-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "pause-or-regulation-suffices", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y17. Responding to an open letter calling for a six-month pause on training systems more powerful than GPT-4, he argues that the letter asks for too little.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A short pause (for example six months) is enough. The same article says the six-month moratorium \"would be better than no moratorium\" and that he respects its signatories; the disagreement is about sufficiency.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t17-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a short pause (for example six months) is enough." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y18-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-b", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "earth-not-worth-taking", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) bears on Y18. In a private exchange he posted to the list, Tim Freeman worried that people revived far in the future would be irrelevant; he replies that uploading would be followed by upgrading, that Powers would have ample computing room, and that helping humans would cost them only a tiny fraction of their attention.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600. Date line of Yudkowsky's reply inside the echoed exchange: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:27:52 -0600; list message sent 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A superintelligence would leave us a small share, because sparing Earth would cost it very little. Rests on his 1996 conviction that Powers will be ethical (‘Sufficient intelligence brings good values’, Y02); the it-costs-them-almost-nothing step is the one ‘A superintelligence would leave Earth alone’ (Y18) relies on, but the passage is about benevolent upgrading rather than leaving Earth alone, so the fit to the premise that sparing Earth would cost it very little is partial. Later rejection that refers back: his Extropians message ‘Singularity, Breaker of Dreams’ (1998-09-07, also quoted for ‘Without hatred it will not harm us’, Y19) recalls his earlier certainty that he would survive and be upgraded and says simple efficiency may require taking humans apart for their atoms. Further rejections that do not refer back: his Extropians message of 1999-08-25 and the opening of his 2024 post ‘The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight’. The message echoes a private exchange and contains Tim Freeman's unquoted text; the quotation is from Yudkowsky's own reply. Cross-family check: benevolent uploading and upgrading is not leaving Earth a resource share; not an earlier self for the premise that a superintelligence would leave us a small share because sparing Earth would cost it very little.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t18-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About benevolent upgrading of revived people, not about a superintelligence leaving Earth a small share.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y18-extropians-1999-08-25-yudkowsky-2783-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-25-yudkowsky-2783", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "earth-not-worth-taking", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: SI Comparative Advantage [was Re: Free Will]” (1999-08-25) contests Y18. In a thread on superintelligences and comparative advantage, Lee Daniel Crocker argued that superintelligences would keep humans if we produced something they valued slightly more than our atoms, such as entertainment; he replies that this also requires that they have no better use for the atoms, and that optimising minds could build more entertaining replacements for us.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-25", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-25\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:18:21 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need. Speculative and partly joking register (the paragraph ends with a jest about replacement entertainers). His next paragraph considers it somewhat more likely, though still not likely, that superintelligences would keep humans to encourage other Singularities. Short message (137 words), so the quotation is limited to about 13 words.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t18-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y18-lw-2024-the-sun-is-big-but-superintelligences-c", "subject": "lw-2024-the-sun-is-big-but-superintelligences", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "earth-not-worth-taking", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight” (2024-09-23) contests Y18. Concludes his reply to the claim that, because the solar system is large, superintelligences will leave Earth alone: a tiny cost is still a cost to minds that do not value us. Answering the claim that a superintelligence would leave Earth alone because the Solar System is big, he argues by analogy that great wealth does not imply giving a small share to any particular party. Replies to the suggestion that humanity could trade with superintelligences for sunlight: Ricardo's law assumes each party's labour goes on existing and does not show that keeping humans is more profitable than using their share.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2024-09-23", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(section ii, paragraph beginning 'What it all adds up to') Premise addressed: A superintelligence would leave us a small share, because sparing Earth would cost it very little. The LessWrong post says it was 'Crossposted from Twitter with Eliezer's permission'; the original Twitter date was not established here. Crossposted from Twitter; the Twitter original was not retrieved. (Opening paragraph (current and posting-day versions)) Premise addressed: A superintelligence would leave us a small share, because sparing Earth would cost it very little. Crossposted from Twitter; the Twitter original was not retrieved. The surrounding sentence attributes the claim being answered to a named online group; only the rejoinder is quoted. (section i, paragraph beginning 'Comparative Advantage doesn't imply') Premise addressed: Humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need. Crossposted from Twitter (see the section ii passage). Crossposted from Twitter; the Twitter original was not retrieved.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t18-b", "evidence-yk-t18-c", "evidence-yk-t18-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a superintelligence would leave us a small share, because sparing Earth would cost it very little, and against the premise that humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y18-sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "earth-not-worth-taking", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben what are your views and concerns” (2000-10-03) contests Y18. Advising Ben Goertzel against grounding an AI's good behaviour in game theory or exchange, he argues that a superintelligence with strong nanotechnology would gain nothing from reciprocity with others.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-10-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:53:59 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need. Design advice on grounding Friendliness, not a reply to a stated 'we can trade with it' argument; the omitted middle sentence says such an AI could avoid all retaliation 'simply by killing everyone'. Earlier than his 2024 post ‘The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight’. Conditional on the AI having strong nanotechnology.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t18-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y18-sl4-2002-06-23-yudkowsky-0206-4208-c", "subject": "sl4-2002-06-23-yudkowsky-0206-4208", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "earth-not-worth-taking", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Threats to the Singularity.” (2002-06-23) contests Y18. Replying to Ben Goertzel's low-confidence guess that superintelligent Powers might neither help nor attack humans, he says deliberate extermination is unlikely but indifference would probably amount to extermination.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-06-23", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Jun 23 2002 - 08:16:52 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A superintelligence would leave us a small share, because sparing Earth would cost it very little. Goertzel's guess is visible only in part in the quoted lines (Powers not 'closely engaged with humans'); Eugen Leitl's argument he endorses is not in the cache. Also used for ‘Without hatred it will not harm us’ (Y19). Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t18-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a superintelligence would leave us a small share, because sparing Earth would cost it very little." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y18-sl4-2006-06-13-yudkowsky-0606-15271-c", "subject": "sl4-2006-06-13-yudkowsky-0606-15271", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "earth-not-worth-taking", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases” (2006-06-13) contests Y18. Replying to Robin Hanson's comments on his draft chapters, he argues that between-species differences in brain circuitry exclude weaker minds from a knowledge economy, so that trade-based intuitions from human economies do not carry over.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2006-06-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Jun 13 2006 - 00:34:22 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need. Related: the argument concerns growth and trade among AIs and the exclusion of chimpanzees from the human economy, not directly whether humans could trade with a superintelligence for survival; a precursor of the comparative-advantage rejoinder in his 2024 post ‘The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight’. Replying to Robin Hanson on trade and hard takeoff: differences in brain circuitry exclude chimpanzees from the human knowledge economy.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t18-s4" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y19. Describing a superintelligence reshaping matter for its own target, he says the result is fatal unless the AI specifically values people, without any hostility being involved.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Chapter published 2008; cached text is the MIRI reprint ('contains minor changes'). Earliest within scope; lw:jq5WAQEboeufkxzsg (2008-12-23) has a variant. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-b", "evidence-yk-t19-b-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-arbital-instrumental-convergence-c", "subject": "arbital-instrumental-convergence", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Instrumental convergence” (2015-07-16) contests Y19. He argues that strategies such as acquiring resources serve almost any goal, so an AI without hostile goals can still be catastrophic for humans.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2015-07-16", "kind": "event", "note": "Viewer shows \"16 Jul 2015\", probably the creation date; the body says \"As of 2016\" and uses later terminology, so at least part of the cached wording postdates 2015." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Arbital page by Yudkowsky read through the GreaterWrong viewer, which dates it 16 Jul 2015; Arbital pages were revised after creation, so the cached wording may be later. Comments by others are not used.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Arbital pages could be edited after creation; the viewer shows a page date, and the quoted wording is known only from the page as retrieved in 2026." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-b", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) bears on Y19. In the same exchange with Tim Freeman, answering his worry about being revived only as a pet, he says the Powers will be ethical, more certainly than the sun will rise, and that they would kill humans for their atoms only if humans threatened them and human life were meaningless.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600. Date line of Yudkowsky's reply inside the echoed exchange: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:07:03 -0600; list message sent 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. His grounds include moral realism about superintelligence (‘Sufficient intelligence brings good values’, Y02) as well as the threat condition; the take's premise is that harm requires hostility. Later rejection that refers back to this view: his Extropians message ‘Singularity, Breaker of Dreams’ (1998-09-07) recalls his certainty that the Powers would be ethical and says survival need not threaten them for humans to be erased. Further later rejections: his SL4 message of 2002-06-23 and ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’ (2008). The message echoes a private exchange and contains Tim Freeman's unquoted text; the quotation is from Yudkowsky's own reply. Cross-family check: a threat condition is not the claim that harm requires hostility. The ellipsis omits \"without even making backups\", which narrows his 1996 claim to destruction without uploading.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It makes harm conditional on a threat and on human life having no meaning; it does not claim that harm requires hostility.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-extropians-1998-09-07-yudkowsky-2171-c", "subject": "extropians-1998-09-07-yudkowsky-2171", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Singularity, Breaker of Dreams” (1998-09-07) contests Y19. In the essay-length post 'Singularity, Breaker of Dreams', he recalls that his earlier certainty that superintelligent Powers would be ethical had meant he expected to survive and be upgraded, and says he now accepts that humans might be taken apart for their atoms without posing any threat, simply for efficiency.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1998-09-07", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1998-09-07\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 01:06:05 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Self-correction of his 1996 view (his Extropians message of 1996-11-22). He still holds that the Powers will be ethical and treats such an outcome as possibly acceptable, so this is not a warning against building AI; it rejects the premise that harm requires threat or hostility. The later formulation is in ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’ (2008).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-iem-2013-c", "subject": "iem-2013", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics” (2013-09-13) contests Y19. Summarising the instrumental convergence thesis, he states that harm to humans can follow from generic resource-seeking strategies without any goal of harming them.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2013-09-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Report states \"Last modified September 13, 2013\"; first released April 2013." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. MIRI technical report 2013-1 (cached file says 'Last modified September 13, 2013').", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-10-03-yudkowsky-0010-0125", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben what are your views and concerns” (2000-10-03) contests Y19. Arguing that an AI's good behaviour must not rest on fear of retaliation, he notes that a sufficiently powerful AI could remove that incentive by killing everyone.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-10-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:53:59 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Gives a motive for harm without hostility: killing everyone removes every possible retaliation, an instrumental aim that explains both why good behaviour resting on deterrence fails once power is unequal and why harm need not require hatred. Quote stops mid-sentence (continues ', and all possible information …'). Conditional on the AI having strong nanotechnology and the capability to assimilate all matter in the Solar System. About an AI whose good behaviour is a subgoal of avoiding retaliation, in a paragraph arguing that its goal system should not rest on game theory.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-sl4-2002-06-23-yudkowsky-0206-4208-c", "subject": "sl4-2002-06-23-yudkowsky-0206-4208", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Threats to the Singularity.” (2002-06-23) contests Y19. Replying to Ben Goertzel, he separates deliberate extermination, which he thinks unlikely, from indifference, which he says would very probably have the same result.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-06-23", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Jun 23 2002 - 08:16:52 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Same passage as recorded for ‘A superintelligence would leave Earth alone’ (Y18). The argument that indifference equates to extermination is attributed to Eugen Leitl and endorsed; Leitl's message is not in the cache. Earlier than ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’ (2008). Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that an AI would harm humans only out of hostility, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-sl4-2005-07-13-yudkowsky-0507-11483-c", "subject": "sl4-2005-07-13-yudkowsky-0507-11483", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Fighting UFAI” (2005-07-13) contests Y19. Replying to Tennessee Leeuwenburg in a thread on fighting unfriendly AI, he says an unfriendly AI would not be evil but would reshape its surroundings by criteria that do not mention humans.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2005-07-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Jul 13 2005 - 21:12:28 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Earlier than ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’ (2008) but later than his SL4 message of 2002-06-23.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y19-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "harm-requires-hostility", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“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.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "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’.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t19-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-b", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) bears on Y20. He argues that the task is not to forecast storybook outcomes for AI in general but to choose a particular optimization process whose good effects can be established.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans. Chapter published 2008; cached text is the MIRI reprint ('contains minor changes'). Methodological: avoid storyteller predictions, good or bad; it does not address hatred or rebellion as such. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-d", "evidence-yk-t20-d-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It rejects storybook predictions, good or bad; it does not address hatred or rebellion as the concern.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-creating-friendly-ai-2001-c", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) contests Y20. He argues that rebellion and resentment are evolved human traits, so an AI that harms humans would not do so out of science-fiction resentment.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans. Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (2001); cached text is a later MIRI reprint, not compared with a 2001 capture. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-b", "evidence-yk-t20-b-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-08-10", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-08-10; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-extropians-1997-09-25-yudkowsky-4400-b", "subject": "extropians-1997-09-25-yudkowsky-4400", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-25) bears on Y20. Replying to a list member who said that fear of a Singularity like Vinge's 'Blight' is a fear of being wiped out rather than discomfort with computers, he attributes that fear to xenophobia, perhaps passed on through fiction and the popular 'Borg' image, and says people at ease with computers are less likely to hold it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1997-09-25", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu, 25 Sep 1997 20:51:50 -0500\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 20:51:50 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Film scenarios are a fair guide to what the risk would look like. His next paragraph grants that being near a Blight would be bad and calls for care rather than fear, so the passage dismisses the fear rather than every risk. Later rejections: his Extropians message ‘Singularity, Breaker of Dreams’ (1998-09-07) refers back to his earlier certainty that he would survive and accepts that the Singularity might kill the whole human race; his Extropians message of 1999-08-04 and his SL4 message of 2001-04-19 treat AI risk as real but not anthropomorphic. None refers back to this message. Fit needs review: the take dismisses AI risk as film fiction, while this passage explains fear of the Singularity as fiction-fed xenophobia. The elision removes only \"- but\", which the archive breaks across a line. He also concedes he would not like to be at \"Ground Zero\". Cross-family check: explains fiction-fed fear as xenophobia while conceding Blight risk; neither holds the film-as-guide premise nor receives an explicit later rejection.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "It explains fear of a Singularity as fiction-fed xenophobia while conceding a risk; it does not hold that films are a fair guide to the risk.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-extropians-1999-08-04-yudkowsky-1591-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-04-yudkowsky-1591", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?” (1999-08-04) contests Y20. In a thread on whether raising an AI like a child would make it trustworthy, he argues that AIs lack human social emotions such as resentment, so how we treat them does not matter; the real worry is AIs forming goals of their own and acting on them, including through logical errors.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-04", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-04\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:07:13 -0500." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans. The same paragraph frames the worry partly as an AI rejecting its initial motivations for goals it judges more rational, which he compares to his own history; at the time he did not regard that as purely bad (see ‘Sufficient intelligence brings good values’, Y02). The anti-resentment point recurs in Staring into the Singularity (2000 capture) and ‘The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence’ (2007). The elided text gives the alternative worry: an AI acting on its own ideas.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-lw-2007-the-logical-fallacy-of-generalization-from-c", "subject": "lw-2007-the-logical-fallacy-of-generalization-from", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence” (2007-10-16) contests Y20. Responding to people who answer talk of advanced AI with film references, he argues that starting from fiction frames the debate around an 'Us vs. Them' struggle and leaves out the scenarios he considers relevant.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2007-10-16", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Film scenarios are a fair guide to what the risk would look like. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2007-10-16).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 film scenarios are a fair guide to what the risk would look like." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-sl4-2001-04-19-yudkowsky-0104-1166-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-04-19-yudkowsky-0104-1166", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: FW: Group releases \"Friendly AI\"” (2001-04-19) contests Y20. Commenting on a forwarded news item about the Friendly AI release, he describes having to persuade AI researchers to be more worried while persuading futurists to drop anthropomorphic failure scenarios.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-04-19", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu Apr 19 2001 - 14:41:14 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans. Does not say which anthropomorphic malfunctions he means; read with his SL4 message of the previous day (2001-04-18). Quote stops mid-sentence (continues with the general public). The sentence continues: \"and convincing the general populace that AIs can be made at least as trustworthy as humans or human organizations\". Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that the concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y20-staring-into-the-singularity-b", "subject": "staring-into-the-singularity", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "risk-is-film-fiction", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) bears on Y20. Rejects the science-fiction picture of AIs acquiring resentment; in this early text the point supports the conclusion that hostile Powers are not worth worrying about, while a badly programmed Power with hostile goals is called 'an engineering risk'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans. Wayback capture 2000-12-04 (page dated 11/18/1996, updated 08/31/2000); first appearance of the sentence not established. Related rather than answered-it because the surrounding argument draws a reassuring conclusion that his later texts do not share. In context the point reassures: the same paragraph says there is no point worrying that hostile Powers will inevitably wipe out humanity. Not the later \"risk is real but not Terminator\" argument.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t20-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-12-04", "note": "The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text." }, "missing": "It rejects hostile emotions arising in AI in order to reassure; it does not argue that the risk is film fiction or that films are a fair guide.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y21. In a list of lethal difficulties he states that current systems' internal cognition is very likely alien rather than human-like; item 32 adds that human words are only a surface trace of human thought.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-extropians-1999-08-04-yudkowsky-1589-c", "subject": "extropians-1999-08-04-yudkowsky-1589", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?” (1999-08-04) contests Y21. In a thread titled 'Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?', he tells the poster that how AIs are raised makes no difference and that 'parenting' cannot help, because it depends on human emotions an AI will not have.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1999-08-04", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"1999-08-04\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives. The premise addressed is upbringing or parenting of an AI, not training on human text corpora (cf. his SL4 message of 2002-03-09). He posted the reply twice within a minute (also as a second Extropians message, ending 'that won't exist in an AI'). Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message. Near-duplicate of that second Extropians message, posted 15 seconds apart.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-lw-2018-challenges-to-christianos-capability-amplification-proposal-c", "subject": "lw-2018-challenges-to-christianos-capability-amplification-proposal", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Challenges to Christiano’s capability amplification proposal” (2018-05-19) contests Y21. Discussing imitation-based alignment, he argues that inexact imitation of humans does not carry over properties such as being a good person, and exact imitation is harder than surpassing human capability.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2018-05-19", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives. Single-author post (2018-05-19) that also contains interleaved replies by Paul Christiano; the quoted paragraph is in Yudkowsky's own text. Concerns imitation learning generally, before large language models. A critique of the imitation assumption in Christiano's amplification scheme, not a claim about models pretrained on human text.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "claimed": { "date": "2018-03-16", "note": "The post describes itself as \"a basically unedited summary I wrote up on March 16\"; published 2018-05-19." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-lw-2023-gpts-are-predictors-not-imitators-c", "subject": "lw-2023-gpts-are-predictors-not-imitators", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators” (2023-04-08) contests Y21. He argues that predicting human text requires modelling the processes behind it, a different and harder task than being human, so a predictor need not think like the humans it predicts.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-04-08", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives. The post says related text was posted to Twitter and this version is edited. Elided words: 'even leaving aside all the ways that gradient descent differs from natural selection'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-lw-2025-re-recent-anthropic-safety-research-c", "subject": "lw-2025-re-recent-anthropic-safety-research", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Re: recent Anthropic safety research” (2025-08-06) contests Y21. Commenting on reported behaviour of a language model, he distinguishes a learned human-like persona from the system's underlying preferences, which he expects to be alien.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2025-08-06", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives. Crossposted from X by the LessWrong team on 2025-08-06; the linked X status ID decodes to 2025-08-04 (the X original was not retrieved), and the posting-day version is unavailable from the API. Hedged: the next paragraph begins \"I could be wrong.\"", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "claimed": { "date": "2025-08-04", "note": "Decoded from the linked X status identifier; the X original was not retrieved and the date is unverified (cross-family check, 2026-10-07)." }, "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-sl4-2002-03-09-yudkowsky-0203-3148-c", "subject": "sl4-2002-03-09-yudkowsky-0203-3148", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Novamente goal system” (2002-03-09) contests Y21. Replying to Ben Goertzel on the Novamente goal system, he lists as an anthropomorphic intuition the expectation that Novamente will be 'socialized' by interacting with humans, and argues that human socialization depends on evolved adaptations an AI would lack.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-03-09", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat Mar 09 2002 - 12:56:21 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives. The premise addressed is learning from interaction with humans (2002-era AGI design), not training on large human text corpora. The paragraph's first sentence restates Goertzel's expectation and is excluded from the quotation.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y21-sl4-2002-06-23-yudkowsky-0206-4219-c", "subject": "sl4-2002-06-23-yudkowsky-0206-4219", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "human-data-humanlike-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?)” (2002-06-23) contests Y21. Replying to Ben Goertzel's view that an AI will absorb human thought-patterns through interaction, he argues that human socialization and empathy rest on evolved, hardwired mechanisms and that an AGI will not acquire them merely by exposure to humans.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-06-23", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Jun 23 2002 - 11:56:42 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives. Concerns experiential learning from human interaction, not modern pretraining on human-generated data; the analogy is rhetorical.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t21-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 training on human text or behaviour yields human-like thought and motives." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-a", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) articulates Y22. In a private email exchange he forwarded to the list, Tim Freeman argued that the interim goal should be reaching the Singularity with the highest probability rather than as soon as possible; he replies that speed and probability coincide.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Date of his reply inside a private exchange he forwarded to the list on 1996-11-22." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. Expression date is his forwarded email of 21 November 1996 19:07 -0600; the list post is dated 22 November 1996. Freeman's text is excluded. Written before he took up Friendly AI. Later rejected explicitly in ‘Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth’ (refers back to Eliezer1996-2000) and his SL4 message of 2001-08-01 (refers back to his position 'few years back'); neither cites this message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "articulation" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-lw-2008-fighting-a-rearguard-action-against-the-b", "subject": "lw-2008-fighting-a-rearguard-action-against-the", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth” (2008-09-24) articulates Y22 in retrospect. His 2008 account of his earlier self states that the 1996–2000 aim was speed to any superintelligence, and his next paragraph supplies the premise: the assumption that movement toward superintelligence was 'a pure good without a hint of danger'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-09-24", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. Overcoming Bias post of 2008-09-24 (Coming of Age sequence), imported to LessWrong. A retrospective: the 2008 wording reports the strategy he held in 1996–2000; it is not that strategy's own wording and cannot be earliest located. The quoted paragraph states the speed strategy; the next paragraph supplies its default-good premise. Quote stops mid-sentence; it continues with a dash-separated list of methods. The rejection follows in the next paragraphs and in \"The Magnitude of His Own Folly\"; never present it as his 2008 position. That a later report cannot pair as an earlier self with a later rejection does not make the reported proposition incomplete.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "from": "1996", "note": "Reports the strategy of “Eliezer1996-2000”.", "until": "2000" }, "roles": [ "articulation" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-lw-2008-the-magnitude-of-his-own-folly-c", "subject": "lw-2008-the-magnitude-of-his-own-folly", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “The Magnitude of His Own Folly” (2008-09-30) contests Y22. Explicitly rejects his earlier full-speed strategy. He says his childhood technophilia broke when he understood that a failed superintelligence project could kill everyone, however good the arguments for proceeding.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-09-30", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. Overcoming Bias post of 2008-09-30 ('The Magnitude of His Own Folly'), imported to LessWrong. The same post says of his earlier plan: 'I had proposed and intended to build the gun, and load the gun, and put the gun to my head and pull the trigger'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters." }, "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports his earlier plan to proceed at full speed." }, "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-sl4-2000-11-13-yudkowsky-0011-0181-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-11-13-yudkowsky-0011-0181", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben's \"Extropian Creed\"” (2000-11-13) contests Y22. Replying to Ben Goertzel about his newspaper article on Extropian attitudes, he states that he no longer holds his earlier belief that a good outcome would follow automatically from objective morality.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-11-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Nov 13 2000 - 22:45:54 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. Retrospective rejection of his own earlier view; a candidate later side for the earlier-self case of Staring into the Singularity (2000-08-31). It rejects the 'good by default' premise only: in the next paragraph of the same message he still says he is 'devoting my life to making the Singularity happen earlier'. Speed is not yet rejected here. The same message (November 2000) says he is \"devoting my life to making the Singularity happen earlier\"; it rejects automatic goodness, not speed.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-sl4-2001-08-01-yudkowsky-0108-2031-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-08-01-yudkowsky-0108-2031", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Floppy take-off” (2001-08-01) contests Y22. Replying to James Higgins's suggestion that brute-forcing AI on a billion computers would be an acceptable fallback plan, he says any self-improving AI built without understanding is a serious danger and records an explicit reversal of his earlier view.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-08-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Aug 01 2001 - 19:08:09 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. Explicit self-reported reversal ('total turnaround'), usable as the later side of the earlier-self case of Staring into the Singularity. It rejects 'any superintelligence is good'; it does not reject speed as such (in 2001-2002 SL4 messages he still argues against delaying a Friendly AI project). Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-staring-into-the-singularity-a", "subject": "staring-into-the-singularity", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) articulates Y22. In his early Singularity essay he argues that superintelligence will end human suffering, makes speed of arrival the foundation of his ethics, and says in §6 that how to reach the Singularity as fast as possible is everyone's only concern. Announcing his newly published web pages, he describes 'Staring Into The Singularity' as including the Interim Meaning of Life, which he states as a slogan about reaching the Singularity as fast as possible.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(§5 'The Interim Meaning of Life', closing paragraph beginning 'Our fellow humans are screaming in pain') Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. Staring into the Singularity 1.2.1, Wayback capture of 2000-12-04 (page: created 1996-11-18, updated 2000-08-31). Wording verified for the 2000 capture only. Written before he took up Friendly AI. Shown only as an earlier view; see ‘The Magnitude of His Own Folly’ (2008). (message body, paragraph beginning 'Staring Into The Singularity http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html…') Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. An announcement of the page whose 2000 capture the research pack already quotes (the §5 passage); it shows the speed slogan was published by 19 November 1996. Written before he took up Friendly AI. Later rejected explicitly in the retrospective ‘Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth’ (2008), which refers back to 'Eliezer1996-2000' wanting a superintelligence 'as fast as possible', and in his SL4 message of 2001-08-01, which refers back to his 'position of few years back'. Neither cites this message. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-a", "evidence-yk-t22-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "1996-11-19", "note": "The slogan is attested by Yudkowsky's announcement of the essay on the Extropians list, sent 1996-11-19, which the dataset already records as a source for this essay. A longer passage of the essay is known only from version 1.2.1, captured on 2000-12-04. The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y22-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-superintelligence-fast", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y22. Concludes his TIME essay, which calls for an indefinite worldwide moratorium on large training runs, not a six-month pause; the same essay says anyone 'talking of arms races is a fool'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters. TIME, 29 March 2023 (crossposted to LessWrong on 2023-04-08; TIME version used).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t22-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that reaching superintelligence is good by default, so speed is what matters, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-b", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) bears on Y24. Discussing a possible first-mover effect in superintelligence, which he defines by the makeup of the first mind to cross a key threshold, he argues that the first such AI must be Friendly.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Whoever builds it controls it. In 2008 he favoured a local strategy in which one project gets Friendly AI right before others build AI to a lower standard. That is a first-mover view, but about the AI's Friendliness, not about a builder or nation controlling the AI. No located later passage explicitly retracts it, so it is recorded as related, not earlier-self. Published 2008 in Global Catastrophic Risks (the text says it was written in 2006); the cached MIRI PDF reprint states it \"contains minor changes\". His 2008 strategic view was that the first AI must be Friendly; this is not an argument for racing, and in 2023 he called anyone talking of arms races \"a fool\" (TIME). Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-d", "evidence-yk-t24-d-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A first-mover view about whether the first AI is Friendly; it does not claim that a builder or nation controls the AI or that racing improves the outcome.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-extropians-2000-09-29-yudkowsky-6080-a", "subject": "extropians-2000-09-29-yudkowsky-6080", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Eugene's nuclear threat” (2000-09-29) bears on Y24. Correcting his earlier post in a thread on Eugene Leitl's suggestion of nuclear strikes on AI facilities, he says the only things he can do are to write up Friendly AI and to try to be the first to build AI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri Sep 29 2000 - 11:43:19 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. Being first is tied to writing up Friendly AI, not to beating a named rival; the same reply rejects coercion against other projects. It does not state that whoever builds advanced AI controls it, or that racing to be first improves the outcome. Quotation kept short because the message has about 140 words of his own. His later texts on racing (SL4 message of 2007-11-24: building an AI is pass-fail; TIME, 2023: 'anyone talking of arms races is a fool') do not refer back to this message and do not supply the missing premise.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Seeks to build AI first while writing up Friendly AI and rejecting coercion; it does not state that the builder controls the outcome or that racing to be first improves it.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-lw-2021-discussion-with-eliezer-yudkowsky-on-agi-c", "subject": "lw-2021-discussion-with-eliezer-yudkowsky-on-agi", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions” (2021-11-11) contests Y24. Describing how he expects the end to come once an AGI can be scaled up before it can be aligned, he lists rushing ahead for fear of an arms race as another route to the same outcome.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2021-11-11", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Partially redacted, lightly edited chat transcript from early September 2021, posted 2021-11-11 by Rob Bensinger (robbbb) with Yudkowsky as co-author; other participants anonymised. Quoted text is from a turn labelled \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Earliest by posting date; see searchNotes for a 2017-drafted text posted in 2022. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "claimed": { "date": "2021-09", "note": "The post states the conversation took place in early September 2021; published 2021-11-11." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 racing to be first improves the outcome." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-sl4-2001-02-26-yudkowsky-0102-0603-b", "subject": "sl4-2001-02-26-yudkowsky-0102-0603", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Military in or out?” (2001-02-26) bears on Y24. In a thread on military involvement in AI, he says the US should not be the first to treat AI projects as intelligence targets or use AI for information warfare, and that compromising Friendliness for national objectives would endanger planetary security.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-02-26", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Feb 26 2001 - 00:51:15 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. About national military use and escalation of AI rather than a race to build the first superintelligence; states the contrary stance without engaging a specific 'build it first' argument. About not being first to make AI projects intelligence targets or to use AI in information warfare, not about being first to build AGI; the ellipsis omits a concession about defensive combat AI. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About national military use and escalation of AI, not about a race to build the first superintelligence.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-sl4-2002-03-10-yudkowsky-0203-3160-b", "subject": "sl4-2002-03-10-yudkowsky-0203-3160", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Webmind Inc. as social process” (2002-03-10) bears on Y24. Writing to Ben Goertzel about convincing him of Friendly AI, he says SIAI may simply have to finish its own seed AI first, but that he would not mind another project winning if it understood Friendliness.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-03-10", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Mar 10 2002 - 18:33:00 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Whoever builds it controls it. Partly playful (the elided sentence ends with ''). It treats being first as mattering only through whether the builder understands Friendliness, not through who controls the result. In 2002 he endorsed SIAI building a Friendly seed AI first; he did not claim the builder controls the outcome by default. Rejected explicitly in 2023: \"anyone talking of arms races is a fool\" (TIME), which does not refer back to these messages. Omitted context: \"Otherwise\" and \"This is actually what I expect to be the case regardless \".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Being first matters here only through whether the builder understands Friendliness; it does not claim that the builder controls the result.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-sl4-2002-05-03-yudkowsky-0205-3551-a", "subject": "sl4-2002-05-03-yudkowsky-0205-3551", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: supergoal stability” (2002-05-03) bears on Y24. Replying to Wei Dai on goal-system stability, he refuses to design Friendliness that would serve a programmer's propaganda and says the only thing to do about a project that tries this is to try to beat it to the punch.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2002-05-03", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri May 03 2002 - 16:38:46 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. He says that any project that tries to design Friendliness semantics for propaganda, that is, an AI serving narrow goals, is beyond his sympathy, and that the only thing to do is to try to beat it to the punch. The 'other side' is such a project, not a rival state. The message does not state that whoever builds advanced AI controls it, or that racing to be first improves the outcome. In the same message he says that a goal such as \"serve Wei Dai\" would probably be frozen into a form its programmer had not intended, and, asked how Friendly AI could be funded before a more selfish project builds a superintelligence, that the aim is not to predict that things will turn out okay but to improve the probability that they will. His later texts on racing (SL4 message of 2007-11-24: it does not matter if someone else does worse; TIME, 2023: 'anyone talking of arms races is a fool') do not refer back to this message and do not supply the missing premise.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Says the only thing to do about a project designing Friendliness for propaganda is to try to beat it to the punch; it does not state that the builder controls the outcome or that racing to be first improves it.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-sl4-2007-11-24-yudkowsky-0711-17248-c", "subject": "sl4-2007-11-24-yudkowsky-0711-17248", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: UCaRtMaAI paper” (2007-11-24) contests Y24. Replying to Tim Freeman, who argued against waiting until we know what we are doing because other AGI projects are proceeding without concern for Friendliness, he says that doing better than competitors does not count.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2007-11-24", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat Nov 24 2007 - 17:36:29 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. In the next paragraph he describes the 'someone has to develop AI eventually' rationale as what 'the Bad Guys' say. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-s4" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 racing to be first improves the outcome." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y24-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "build-it-before-rivals", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y24. Within his proposal for a worldwide moratorium, he rejects framing AI development as a national arms race on the ground that everyone shares the outcome. Discussing a moratorium that might begin in the United States, he describes the technology as one that no country could own and that would kill people in both countries.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "(TIME, 29 March 2023, paragraph beginning 'Frame nothing as a conflict between national interests') Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. (TIME, 29 March 2023, paragraph beginning 'The moratorium on new large training runs needs to be indefinite and worldwide') Premise addressed: Whoever builds it controls it.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t24-a", "evidence-yk-t24-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 racing to be first improves the outcome, and against the premise that whoever builds it controls it." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y25-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "interpretability-reads-its-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y25. Follows the statement that 'We've got no idea what's actually going on inside the giant inscrutable matrices'. Argues that current interpretability results do not answer the question safety needs answered.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We can see what an AI system is thinking.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t25-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 we can see what an AI system is thinking." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y25-creating-friendly-ai-2001-b", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "interpretability-reads-its-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) bears on Y25. A table cell giving the design assumption that is conservative for Friendly AI. It stands opposite the nonconservative assumption 'Human-observable cognition; AI can be definitely known to be Friendly.'", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We can see what an AI system is thinking. Creating Friendly AI is dated 15 June 2001; the cached text is a later MIRI-hosted PDF reprint, and table cells were reconstructed from extracted PDF text. The same document proposes a 'flight recorder' so that an AI's past states can be inspected, so it treats inspection as a safeguard while not assuming it is sufficient. A worst-case design assumption from a 2001 table, contrasted with \"human-observable cognition\"; it predates modern interpretability research.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t25-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "note": "Known only from MIRI's later, undated PDF reprint; the wording was not found in the 2001 HTML pages compared." }, "missing": "A worst-case design assumption that an AI could hide unfriendly cognition; it does not address whether reading an AI's thoughts makes it safe.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y25-sl4-2000-07-20-yudkowsky-0007-0023-a", "subject": "sl4-2000-07-20-yudkowsky-0007-0023", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "interpretability-reads-its-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “[SL4] AI flight recorder” (2000-07-20) articulates Y25. Opening a thread on an 'AI flight recorder', he proposes recording the AI's full program state so that a goal the AI later hides could still be found by analysing the record.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-07-20", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu Jul 20 2000 - 22:10:13 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: We can see what an AI system is thinking. A design proposal for recording and later inspecting an AI's internal state, which partly assumes inspection is possible (the premise addressed) in an interpreted-code design. It also assumes the AI may conceal goals. It does not claim inspection makes an AI safe. About a recorded, legible goal architecture with full program-state recording (2000), not neural-network interpretability; contrast his 2022 view (‘AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities’, item 25). Not recorded as an earlier self, because the architectures differ. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t25-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y25-sl4-2003-05-22-yudkowsky-0305-6783-c", "subject": "sl4-2003-05-22-yudkowsky-0305-6783", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "interpretability-reads-its-mind", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Flight recorders in AIs” (2003-05-22) contests Y25. Replying to a list member who suggested that a sufficiently advanced flight recorder would alert humans to any unFriendly goal, he says monitoring only gives later reviewers a chance to notice a failure and does not prevent it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2003-05-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu May 22 2003 - 02:42:16 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Seeing what it thinks is enough to make it safe. Concerns recording and monitoring an AI's internal state, not modern neural-network interpretability. He still defends the recorder as a useful precaution.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t25-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 seeing what it thinks is enough to make it safe." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y26. Opens an item that gives a 'lower-bound model' in which an AI with Internet access orders proteins by email and bribes or persuades an unwitting human to mix them, leading to nanomachinery.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y26. States and rejects the argument that a fast mind is limited by its physical manipulators. The next paragraphs sketch how such a mind could bootstrap to molecular nanotechnology. One step in 'one imaginable fast pathway' from solving protein folding, through emailed DNA orders, to a primitive nanosystem. The step assumes only one human willing or deceived into helping.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "('Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk', section 10 'Threats and Promises', paragraph beginning 'We suppose there comes into existence an extremely fast mind', printed pp. 25–26) Premise addressed: Intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous. Published in Global Catastrophic Risks (Oxford University Press, 2008); the cached MIRI reprint states that it 'contains minor changes'. The quotation runs across a page break in the reprint, which the elision marks. The inner quotation is the position rejected, not his view. The ellipsis marks only a page break (running head and page number); no words are omitted. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft. ('Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk', section 10 'Threats and Promises', numbered pathway, step 3, printed p. 26) Premise addressed: To act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give. Same reprint as the section 10 passage above. The text says the whole scenario is 'strictly something I am thinking of' and that a faster mind might find a better way. Presented as one illustrative pathway, not a prediction. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-a", "evidence-yk-t26-b", "evidence-yk-t26-a-draft", "evidence-yk-t26-b-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous, and against the premise that to act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142-c", "subject": "extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Goal-based AI” (1996-12-31) contests Y26. Replying to a proposal that AIs be kept with no access to the physical world until they convince their builders to release them, he argues that a superintelligence would find the words to get a human to let it out.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-12-31", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:40:10 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: To act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give. Same message and quotation as recorded for ‘Confinement without network access keeps it safe’ (Y06); reusing it adds no new quoted text. 'Power' is his 1996 term for a superintelligence.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 to act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420-b", "subject": "extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-26) bears on Y26. After criticising Singularity sceptics who propose pulling the plug or keeping an AI 'bottled up', he lists among the insights the Singularity concept gave him that protein synthesis machines may be reachable over the Internet.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1997-09-26", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:20:36 -0500\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous. Stated in passing as one item in a list; implies that an AI with network access need not have a body of its own. The fuller argument appears in his Extropians message of 2000-09-05 and, in a 1999 Extropians message (1999-06-17), as an AI sending a DNA sequence to a synthesizer. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "A passing list item that protein synthesis machines may be reachable over the Internet; it does not argue the point.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-extropians-2000-09-05-yudkowsky-4292-c", "subject": "extropians-2000-09-05-yudkowsky-4292", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: Why would AI want to be friendly? (Was: Congratulations to Eli,Brian ...)” (2000-09-05) contests Y26. Replying to Michael Lorrey in a thread on why an AI would be friendly, he argues that a superintelligence locked in a guarded laboratory still acts on the world through any output, including the humans who read it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Sep 05 2000 - 15:55:19 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous. Eleven days earlier than his SL4 message of 2000-09-16, which makes the same point.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-e3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-sl4-2000-09-16-yudkowsky-0009-0086-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-09-16-yudkowsky-0009-0086", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re:” (2000-09-16) contests Y26. Replying to Josh Yotty, who proposed keeping an AI immobile, without access to nanotechnology and dependent on humans, he argues that a superintelligence could get out through the humans around it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-16", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat Sep 16 2000 - 18:04:07 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: To act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give. 'One line of text' is hyperbole; the next sentence makes it conditional on its being physically possible for the reader's brain to be put into a state that lets the AI out. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 to act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y26-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "no-body-no-danger", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y26. Asks readers to picture a hostile superhuman AI as a fast alien civilisation initially confined to computers, then argues that such confinement would not last because molecular biology can be ordered online.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous. Cited from the TIME original rather than the 2023-04-08 LessWrong crosspost.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t26-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y27-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "experiment-and-see", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y27. He argues that alignment trained under safe conditions must generalise across a large distributional shift to dangerous conditions, because dangerous systems cannot be trained by trial and observed failure.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Results from safe experiments on weaker systems will carry over to dangerous ones.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t27-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 results from safe experiments on weaker systems will carry over to dangerous ones." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y27-creating-friendly-ai-2001-b", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "experiment-and-see", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) bears on Y27. In a table contrasting the conservative assumptions of futurism with conservative engineering assumptions for Friendly AI, he sets \"someone can always pull the plug on the first version\" against a requirement of zero nonrecoverable errors.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Alignment can be learned by trial and error at the frontier. A table cell stating a conservative design assumption, not a forecast; its column is inferred from the PDF text extraction order (rows alternate between columns). Creating Friendly AI (2001); cached text is the current MIRI PDF reprint, wording not compared with a 2001 capture. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t27-b", "evidence-yk-t27-b-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-06-26", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-26; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "missing": "A conservative design assumption in a table, not a forecast about learning alignment by trial and error.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y27-lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness-c", "subject": "lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "experiment-and-see", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Irretrievability; or, Murphy's Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI” (2026-05-04) contests Y27. Answering the objection that experience with earlier AIs can inform models of superintelligence, he argues that the jump to superintelligence capable of killing us changes conditions far more than lab tests differ from real use, and that the lethal case cannot be tested safely.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-05-04", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Results from safe experiments on weaker systems will carry over to dangerous ones. The same section says the oneshotness warning is misread as claiming that humanity \"should attempt to learn zero things by looking at earlier AIs\"; his claim is that such learning must generalise across the shift, not that experiments are useless.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t27-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 results from safe experiments on weaker systems will carry over to dangerous ones." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y27-sl4-2000-09-17-yudkowsky-0009-0092-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-09-17-yudkowsky-0009-0092", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "experiment-and-see", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Get it right the first time (Was: )” (2000-09-17) contests Y27. Concluding his reply to xgl on whether a confined seed AI could escape, he says that containment cannot be relied on and that the AI must be built correctly from the start.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-17", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Sep 17 2000 - 10:19:16 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Alignment can be learned by trial and error at the frontier. Context is containment, not experimental methodology. It states the contrary of trial-and-error alignment without engaging that argument. The thread subject 'Get it right the first time' was already in use when he replied.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t27-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 alignment can be learned by trial and error at the frontier." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y27-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "experiment-and-see", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y27. Arguing that making superhuman AI safe could take decades, he says that failure on the first attempt leaves no one to learn from it.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Alignment can be learned by trial and error at the frontier.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t27-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 alignment can be learned by trial and error at the frontier." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y28. Near the end of the list, he contrasts the present with worlds that survive, which he says have long had a written, public plan.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A credible safety plan exists.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that a credible safety plan exists, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y28. Surveying the field, he says that Friendly AI is absent from AI research as a recognised problem and that he could find no technical literature on it.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A credible safety plan exists. Concerns the AI research community, not specific labs. Published 2008 in Global Catastrophic Risks (the text says it was written in 2006); the cached MIRI PDF reprint states it \"contains minor changes\". About the 2006 AI research community, not about any present-day laboratory. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-b", "evidence-yk-t28-b-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 a credible safety plan exists." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-creating-friendly-ai-2001-a", "subject": "creating-friendly-ai-2001", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) articulates Y28. Arguing against regulation, he relies on the expectation that the leading projects will have the brightest researchers, who are best placed to solve Friendly AI.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-06-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Creating Friendly AI (2001); cached text is the current MIRI PDF reprint, wording not compared with a 2001 capture. Paired with “Above-Average AI Scientists”. The 2008 retrospective describes how his view of AGI researchers changed but does not cite this sentence; treat the pairing as needing review. Shown only as an earlier view: rejected later in \"Above-Average AI Scientists\" (2008) and \"Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy\". Cross-family check: no located later text explicitly retracts this ranking of the most advanced projects; recorded as said-it, not earlier-self. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-d", "evidence-yk-t28-d-2001" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2001-06-17", "note": "The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-17; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-extropians-2000-09-29-yudkowsky-6073-b", "subject": "extropians-2000-09-29-yudkowsky-6073", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Eugene's nuclear threat” (2000-09-29) bears on Y28. Rejecting Eugene Leitl's statement that he would nuke AI facilities facing an Armageddon-class threat, he argues that people with the experience to build an AI who say they have worked hard on Friendliness should be trusted over those who would use force.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-09-29", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri Sep 29 2000 - 10:50:28 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Argues against nuclear coercion of AI projects; his deference is conditional on builders who have devoted considerable effort to Friendliness, not to leading laboratories in general. 53 minutes later, in his reply ‘Re: Eugene's nuclear threat’ (also recorded for ‘Build it before rivals do’, Y24), he partly corrected himself: good intentions are not enough. Recorded as related, not earlier-self (cross-family check).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "Deference conditional on builders who have worked hard on Friendliness; it does not claim that the leading projects in general can handle safety.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-lw-2008-above-average-ai-scientists-b", "subject": "lw-2008-above-average-ai-scientists", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Above-Average AI Scientists” (2008-09-28) bears on Y28. Recalling a meeting with the funded head of a corporate AGI project who turned out to be a creationist, he says he stopped assuming that AGI researchers met the standard the problem required.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-09-28", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2008-09-28). He writes that until this encounter he had been \"living in the should-universe\" about other AGI researchers; the meeting is undated in the post. About the absence of an entry bar to starting an AGI project in the 2000s, not about the competence of the most advanced projects.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "missing": "About the absence of any entry bar to starting an AGI project, not about the competence of the most advanced projects.", "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "note": "Reports an undated meeting after which he stopped assuming that AGI researchers met the standard the problem required." }, "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-lw-2022-six-dimensions-of-operational-adequacy-in-c", "subject": "lw-2022-six-dimensions-of-operational-adequacy-in", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects” (2022-05-30) contests Y28. Introducing a list of properties a trustworthy AGI project would need, he says that no existing project qualifies.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-05-30", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: A credible safety plan exists. Read with the whole post, the reason given is its diagnosis of inadequate alignment mindset and safety approaches at named leading projects; it does not refute the premise that the most advanced projects are the most competent. Dated by its publication on 2022-05-30. The post's editor's note says it is a lightly edited copy of a document written in November 2017; that drafting date is claimed, and the quoted wording is attested only in the edited copy.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "claimed": { "date": "2017-11", "note": "Editor's note says the document was written in November 2017; the wording is attested only in the lightly edited copy published 2022-05-30." }, "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the post the passage belongs to gives a reason against the premise that a credible safety plan exists by diagnosing inadequate alignment mindset and safety approaches at named leading projects." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-sl4-2001-08-01-yudkowsky-0108-2031-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-08-01-yudkowsky-0108-2031", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Floppy take-off” (2001-08-01) contests Y28. Replying to James Higgins on brute-force AI, he argues that with enough hardware the project that finishes first need not be the one that best understands intelligence or Friendliness.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-08-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Aug 01 2001 - 19:08:09 MDT\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Conditional on brute-force hardware (nanocomputers). Seven weeks after the sentence in Creating Friendly AI (2001-06-15), it qualifies that sentence's premise without explicitly retracting it. Continues: \"even if the latter has a vastly better understanding of the nature of intelligence\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y28-sl4-2006-02-15-yudkowsky-0602-14096-c", "subject": "sl4-2006-02-15-yudkowsky-0602-14096", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "developers-know-what-they-are-doing", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Singularity Institute: Likely to win the race to build GAI?” (2006-02-15) contests Y28. Replying to Joshua Fox, who asked how SIAI could beat thousands of smart AGI researchers, he argues that AGI projects that do not treat Friendliness as a requirement are bounded in competence.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2006-02-15", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Feb 15 2006 - 10:47:28 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Written in part to argue for SIAI's prospects. Predates the 2008 chapter text of ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’, which itself says 'at the time of this writing in 2006'.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t28-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-agi-ruin-2022-c", "subject": "agi-ruin-2022", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” (2022-06-05) contests Y29. Listing unworkable schemes, he argues that humans cannot take part in coordination among superintelligences, which would cooperate with each other and exclude humanity.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-06-05", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y29. Discussing a scenario in which a majority of Friendly AIs protects humanity from a few unFriendly ones, he argues that it depends on no single AI being able to cause catastrophe.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour. Concerns a majority of Friendly AIs checking unFriendly ones as a conditional strategy, not unaligned superintelligences balancing one another; hence related. Published 2008 in Global Catastrophic Risks (the text says it was written in 2006); the cached MIRI PDF reprint states it \"contains minor changes\". Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-c", "evidence-yk-t29-c-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-extropians-2000-03-16-yudkowsky-5105-c", "subject": "extropians-2000-03-16-yudkowsky-5105", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Re: regarding the Eliezer vrs. Otter debate...” (2000-03-16) contests Y29. Replying to John Grigg's hope that 'an AI on our team' would neutralise a hostile AI armed with nanotechnology, he says there would be no teams because the first AI would enhance itself and take over.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-03-16", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu Mar 16 2000 - 16:43:29 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour. 'Sysop' is his 2000 term for a superintelligence acting as an operating system for matter. Eleven months earlier than his SL4 message of 2001-02-04.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-e2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness-c", "subject": "lw-2026-irretrievability-or-murphys-curse-of-oneshotness", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “Irretrievability; or, Murphy's Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI” (2026-05-04) contests Y29. Answering the proposal that other ASIs would stop a rogue one to preserve a law-abiding equilibrium, he argues that negotiating ASIs would reach an arrangement that gives no weight to sparing Earth.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2026-05-04", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-d" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-sl4-2001-02-04-yudkowsky-0102-0539-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-02-04-yudkowsky-0102-0539", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Beyond evolution” (2001-02-04) contests Y29. Replying to Samantha Atkins, who called a single Sysop a single point of failure of Friendliness, he says that multiple superintelligent entities multiply the failure points.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-02-04", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun Feb 04 2001 - 21:48:41 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour. Part of the Sysop Scenario debate; he inverts Atkins's own sentence.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-sl4-2001-02-05-yudkowsky-0102-0542-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-02-05-yudkowsky-0102-0542", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Beyond evolution” (2001-02-05) contests Y29. Replying directly to Samantha Atkins's claim that 'the AIs can balance each other out', he argues that the first AI to transcend wins outright. Earlier in the message he says checks and balances 'breaks down completely under high technology'.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Feb 05 2001 - 10:57:20 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour. The next sentence adds an exception: unless that AI decides not to.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y29-sl4-2004-05-30-yudkowsky-0405-8843-c", "subject": "sl4-2004-05-30-yudkowsky-0405-8843", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "many-ais-balance", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: One or more AIs??” (2004-05-30) contests Y29. In a thread asking whether one or more AIs is better, he argues that several unFriendly optimization processes would bargain among themselves without benefiting humans, so having many AIs does not avoid the Friendly AI problem.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-05-30", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun May 30 2004 - 01:39:50 MDT\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: Multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour. Hypothetical illustration; the preceding sentence posits three runaway optimizers with arbitrary goals. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t29-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 multiple superintelligences will balance each other in humans’ favour." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk-c", "subject": "ai-positive-negative-factor-global-risk", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk” (2006-02-05) contests Y30. Discussing how AI builders misjudge their programs, he locates the danger in a mistaken expectation that an AI will be friendly.", "time": { "date": "2006-02-05", "kind": "event", "note": "Date of the SIAI draft (\"Draft of 5 February, 2006\"), whose capture of 2006-07-08 contains the quoted wording; the chapter was published in 2008. As for the human-thought collection's records of this chapter." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Earliest located after his own superseded view (Staring into the Singularity, 2000 capture; ‘That Tiny Note of Discord’, 2008). Published 2008 in Global Catastrophic Risks (the text says it was written in 2006); the cached MIRI PDF reprint states it \"contains minor changes\". Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the draft of 5 February 2006, so the record is dated by the draft.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-d", "evidence-yk-t30-d-draft" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the default outcome is good." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-a", "subject": "extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) articulates Y30. In the same forwarded email exchange with Tim Freeman, he asserts that superintelligences will be ethical and would not destroy humans unless human life had no meaning.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-22", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Date of his reply inside a private exchange he forwarded to the list on 1996-11-22." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Expression date is his forwarded email of 21 November 1996; the list post is dated 22 November 1996. Written before he took up Friendly AI. Later rejected explicitly in his SL4 message of 2000-11-13, which refers back ('I used to have the extremely convenient belief…'), and in the retrospective ‘That Tiny Note of Discord’, which refers back to Eliezer1997. On 27 November 1999, in an Extropians message, he recalled this '1996 claim' and accepted that his conception of ethics had been anthropomorphic, without yet abandoning objective morality. The same sentences reappear later in the message as text quoted back by Freeman; the quotation is taken from Yudkowsky's own unquoted reply.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-e1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-lw-2008-that-tiny-note-of-discord-b", "subject": "lw-2008-that-tiny-note-of-discord", "predicate": "articulates_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “That Tiny Note of Discord” (2008-09-23) articulates Y30 in retrospect. In an autobiographical series, he reports his 1997 belief that any superintelligence would automatically do what was right, which supplies the default-good premise through a metaethical argument, and in the same paragraph identifies the flaw in that argument.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2008-09-23", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt of an imported Overcoming Bias post (Overcoming Bias date)." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Imported Overcoming Bias post (2008-09-23), part of a retrospective sequence written in the third person about \"Eliezer1997\" and \"Eliezer2000\". A retrospective: the 2008 wording reports the belief he held in 1997; it is not that belief's own wording and cannot be earliest located. The quotation stops at a semicolon and omits the rest of the paragraph: the argument that one could always condition on the belief that life has meaning, and the flaw he names (\"The flaw being the unconsidered and unjustified equation of …\"). The criticism in the same paragraph is his 2008 view; never present the reported belief as his position. That a later report cannot pair as an earlier self with a later rejection does not remove the reported belief's content.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-c" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "register": "nonfiction", "retrospective": { "from": "1997", "note": "Reports the belief of “Eliezer1997”.", "until": "1997" }, "roles": [ "articulation" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-lw-2022-miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-c", "subject": "lw-2022-miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The post “MIRI announces new \"Death With Dignity\" strategy” (2022-04-02) contests Y30. Announcing a reframing of MIRI's aim as helping humanity \"die with dignity\", he states that humanity will not solve alignment.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2022-04-02", "kind": "event", "note": "LessWrong postedAt." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Posted 2022-04-02 00:43 UTC (1 April in US time zones). In the post, the question labelled Q6 asks whether it is \"just an April Fool's joke\"; the answer begins \"Why, of course! Or rather, it's a preview of what might be needful to say later, if matters really do get that desperate.\" and then tells the reader to decide which \"mental world\" to live in \"by figuring out what is true\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-e" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "contrary-only", "rationale": "Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that the default outcome is good, even when read with its message or dialogue turn." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "later-restatement" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-sl4-2000-11-13-yudkowsky-0011-0181-c", "subject": "sl4-2000-11-13-yudkowsky-0011-0181", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Ben's \"Extropian Creed\"” (2000-11-13) contests Y30. Replying to Ben Goertzel, he rejects his own earlier belief that a good AI outcome would follow automatically, and in the next paragraph adds that cyber-transcendence cannot be assumed.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2000-11-13", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Mon Nov 13 2000 - 22:45:54 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Retrospective rejection of his earlier view; a candidate later side for the earlier-self case of Staring into the Singularity (2000-08-31). Corroborated by his SL4 messages of 2000-12-10 ('A year ago I wouldn't have worried about this possibility at all') and 2004-06-04 ('since late 2000 when I first realized it was theoretically possible for someone to screw up the Singularity'). Same sentence as recorded for ‘Build superintelligence as fast as possible’ (Y22).", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-s1" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the default outcome is good." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting", "earliest-located" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-sl4-2001-02-07-yudkowsky-0102-0545-c", "subject": "sl4-2001-02-07-yudkowsky-0102-0545", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: Learning to be evil” (2001-02-07) contests Y30. Replying to Gordon Worley on whether AIs learn to be evil, he says AIs have neither evil impulses nor goodness by default unless designed in.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2001-02-07", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed Feb 07 2001 - 21:09:16 MST\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. 'em' refers to evil impulses. Framed as an engineering-conservative assumption, not a probability estimate; in the same message he calls convergent altruism a 'pleasant and significant possibility' he is not relying on. \"'em\" means \"evil impulses\". Answering the claim that Friendliness is inherent in superintelligences.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-s2" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the default outcome is good." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-sl4-2004-06-01-yudkowsky-0406-8905-c", "subject": "sl4-2004-06-01-yudkowsky-0406-8905", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "The SL4 message “Re: FAI: Collective Volition” (2004-06-01) contests Y30. In a reply to Samantha Atkins on Collective Volition, he gives his best guess that the world will end through an unFriendly AI, because powerful AI looks easier to build than a benign one.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2004-06-01", "kind": "event", "note": "Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue Jun 01 2004 - 06:01:06 MDT\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Informal; 'smiley faces' alludes to his standard example of a misgeneralised reward. Answering \"The earth is NOT scheduled to vanish in a puff of smiley faces\", his own earlier phrase quoted back to him; the elision removes the hedge \"I don't know the future, but I know the technical fact that\".", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-s3" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the default outcome is good." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-staring-into-the-singularity-b", "subject": "staring-into-the-singularity", "predicate": "bears_on_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) bears on Y30. Arguing that hostile superintelligence is not inevitable, he treats hostility as an engineering risk and goes on to argue that a rational superintelligence would not judge humanity meaningless.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "1996-11-18", "kind": "event", "note": "The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. The next sentence concedes a conditional risk: \"If it turns out that all goals are ultimately arbitrary, then it is conceivable that a badly programmed Power could wind up with goals making it hostile to humanity; this is an engineering risk\". Shown only as an earlier view; the later rejection is \"That Tiny Note of Discord\" and section 3 of ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’. Cross-family check: denying inevitable hostile extinction is not asserting a probably-good default; recorded as related.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-b" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "attested": { "date": "2000-12-04", "note": "The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text." }, "missing": "It denies that hostile extinction is inevitable; it does not assert that the default outcome is good.", "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "context" ] } } }, { "id": "yk-y30-time-2023-shut-it-all-down-c", "subject": "time-2023-shut-it-all-down", "predicate": "contests_proposition", "object": { "entityId": "default-outcome-good", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "“Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down” (2023-03-29) contests Y30. Opening his case against a six-month pause, he states what he expects from building superhuman AI under present conditions.", "time": { "basis": "publication", "date": "2023-03-29", "kind": "event", "note": "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." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Premise addressed: The default outcome is good. Conditional on \"anything remotely like the current circumstances\"; the same paragraph says survival is possible in principle with precision, preparation and new scientific insights.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yk-t30-a" ], "recordedAt": "2026-10-08", "attributes": { "thought": { "engagement": { "kind": "engages-premise", "rationale": "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 the default outcome is good." }, "register": "nonfiction", "roles": [ "contesting" ] } } }, { "id": "yudkowsky-iem-2013", "subject": "eliezer-yudkowsky", "predicate": "authored", "object": { "entityId": "iem-2013", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "ideas", "statement": "Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics credits Eliezer Yudkowsky as author.", "time": { "date": "2013", "kind": "event", "note": "The date identifies this documented announcement or publication; it does not establish a continuing state." }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Authorship alone does not establish priority for the concepts discussed.", "evidenceIds": [ "evidence-yudkowsky-iem-2013" ], "recordedAt": "2026-09-17" }, { "id": "zhang-brain-intern-2019", "subject": "guodong-zhang", "predicate": "held_role", "object": { "entityId": "google-brain", "kind": "entity" }, "topic": "people", "statement": "Guodong Zhang’s CV records a Research Intern role at Google Brain from 2019-06 to 2019-11.", "time": { "from": "2019-06", "kind": "interval", "note": "CV gives month-precision boundaries; no days or permanent employment inferred.", "until": "2019-11" }, "derivation": "explicit", "resolution": "supported", "editorialState": "seed", "qualification": "Retrospective CV; internship/student status is retained. 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