Superintelligence: Fears, Promises and Potentials
A journal article by Ben Goertzel, Journal of Evolution and Technology, dated November 2015. the page header gives November 2015 (issue line) and December 2015 (journal banner).
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- Superintelligence: Fears, Promises and Potentials Journal of Evolution and Technology (jetpress.org), Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies · published 2015-11 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 359c04f1b987c3d82f60c9d4a295c9d61f37b8a9e51f6780d16763a84b9fa10a). HTML article as served on 2026-10-29; the page header gives "25(2) – December 2015" and "Vol. 24 Issue 2 – November 2015"; the page's character encoding is mis-declared, so quotations avoid affected characters. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes.
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- Propositions about superintelligence, 1863–2022 →1 record on this document
- Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →2 records on this document
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- Treacherous turnGoertzel's paper of 2015, discussing Bostrom's Superintelligence, states that a treacherous-turn outcome cannot be ruled out in principle but that there is no reason to expect it to be especially likely, and proposes testing it by experiments with less capable AIs.2015-11 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Treacherous turn: propositions page →
- Orthogonality of intelligence and goalsGoertzel's paper of 2015, discussing Bostrom's Superintelligence, argues that the orthogonality thesis concerns only what is possible in principle, which is of little direct interest, and that some pairings of intelligence and goals, though physically possible, would be extremely unlikely under reasonable assumptions.2015-11 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Orthogonality of intelligence and goals: propositions page →
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