Why I don’t fear super intelligence (response to "The Myth of AI", Edge Reality Club)
An essay by Kevin Kelly, Edge.org, dated 2014. The Edge conversation page dates the conversation 14 November 2014; the Reality Club responses carry no dates of their own, so only the year is given.
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- Response by Kevin Kelly, "Why I don’t fear super intelligence", in "The Myth of AI" (Reality Club discussion) Edge.org, conversation page "The Myth of AI" (Jaron Lanier, dated 14 November 2014), Reality Club discussion · published 2014 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6ea0800c969ae54c4fad372468aa5a9a557b4d25a081bee9b26d51048fd8d159). current Edge.org conversation page retrieved 2026-10-29 (the page states that the site is hosted by the Internet Archive); responses carry no individual dates. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 found Kelly's passage on modifying programs absent from the capture of 16 November 2014 and present in the capture of 18 November 2014.Archived copy, captured 2014-11-18: Response by Kevin Kelly, "Why I don’t fear super intelligence", in "The Myth of AI" (Reality Club discussion). An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2014-11-18. 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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- Advanced AI can be kept under control by designKelly's Edge response of 2014 argues that unwanted AI decisions are an engineering problem: people will modify the principles that govern AI systems, and it is improbable that engineers would build an AI that could not be altered.2014 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Advanced AI can be kept under control by design: propositions page →
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- Instrumental convergenceKelly's Edge response of 2014 argues that it is unclear how making itself unalterable would benefit an AI, and that an AI could as likely decide to let anyone change it.2014 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Instrumental convergence: propositions page →
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