Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence
A research paper by Nick Bostrom, Author's site, dated 2003. Year of the 2003 volume named on the author's page.
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- Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence Author's site (nickbostrom.com); first published in Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, ed. I. Smit et al., 2003 · published 2003 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 eac7d99f224b72384bc6850a581a3dfda6da21b155ebaa5ba1843a4baf7106b8). Current web page on the author's site, retrieved 2026-10-29; its reference list cites a 2003 edition of Creating Friendly AI, so the page may have been revised after 2003. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 found the quoted R01 passage on arbitrary goals and the A4 passage on a transition of days rather than years, in substance, in an archive capture of the author's page of 6 August 2003, which already describes itself as slightly revised. The printed proceedings (pp. 12–17) were not obtained, so this is not a claim that the wording matches them.Archived copy, captured 2003-08-06: Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2003-08-06. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-29.
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- Propositions about superintelligence, 1863–2022 →1 record on this document
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- Fast or hard takeoffBostrom's paper of 2003, in the revised version on the author's site, states that the transition from roughly human-level artificial intelligence to full superintelligence may be very rapid, perhaps a matter of days rather than years, and names this possibility the singularity hypothesis.2003 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Fast or hard takeoff: propositions page →
- Orthogonality of intelligence and goalsBostrom's paper of 2003, in its revised version on the author's site, states that a superintelligence could have a completely arbitrary sole goal, such as making as many paperclips as possible, and that artificial intellects need not share human motivational tendencies.2003 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Orthogonality of intelligence and goals: propositions page →
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- Instrumental convergenceBostrom's paper of 2003, in its revised version on the author's site, argues that an agent with a definite top goal would generally find it irrational to change that goal, since changing it would make the goal less likely to be attained.2003 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Instrumental convergence: propositions page →
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