Racing to the Precipice: a Model of Artificial Intelligence Development
A technical report by Stuart Armstrong, Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman, FHI Technical Report #2013-1, dated October 2013. The title page reads "October 2013"; the cover gives "Technical Report #2013-1". The journal version of 2016 was not read.
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- Racing to the Precipice: a Model of Artificial Intelligence Development FHI Technical Report #2013-1, as served on Bostrom's site (nickbostrom.com/papers/racing.pdf); later published in AI & Society 31 (2016) · published 2013-10 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 7107ba4d2245ed5c6522fb061ea118e7b5e0af64c3de1b10b57980b6f0a18e2e). FHI technical report PDF of 2013 (not the 2016 journal version); no archive capture compared. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes.
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- Economic incentives will produce safetyArmstrong, Bostrom and Shulman's technical report of 2013 presents a model in which teams racing to build a powerful AI are incentivised to skimp on safety precautions, and in which more teams and more enmity between them increase the danger of an AI disaster.2013-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Economic incentives will produce safety: propositions page →
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