The Myth of a Superhuman AI
An essay by Kevin Kelly, The Technium, dated 27 April 2017. Date printed on the author's blog copy; the Wired publication of April 2017 was not retrieved.
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- The Myth of a Superhuman AI The Technium (author's blog, kk.org); also published in Wired, April 2017 (not retrieved) · published 2017-04-27 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ab690aebf8528f12b249ba1a5c6ef28a1aa1eec29bdb27b6e287893db80ce8ab). Author's blog copy dated April 27, 2017, retrieved 2026-10-29; the Wired version was not compared. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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- Propositions about superintelligence, 1863–2022 →1 record on this document
- Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →1 record on this document
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- Fast or hard takeoffKelly's essay of April 2017 argues that there is no evidence that intelligence is increasing exponentially and that an imagined intelligence explosion should be pictured not as a cascading boom but as a scattering of new varieties, with experiments and the external world limiting the pace of discovery.2017-04-27 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Fast or hard takeoff: propositions page →
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