Will Robots Inherit the Earth?
A magazine article by Marvin L. Minsky, Copy of Marvin Minsky's MIT Media Lab site hosted at web.mit.edu/dxh, dated October 1994. Scientific American, October 1994, as stated on the author's web text, which is marked "with some minor revisions" and "Last modified: Wed Jan 02 1997".
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- Will Robots Inherit the Earth? Copy of Marvin Minsky's MIT Media Lab site hosted at web.mit.edu/dxh; published in Scientific American 271 (4), October 1994 · published 1994-10 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 31720270c1a06a4c58da1a470a0f6d891f194cfca12a5f9781f1026cc4449ba5). Author's web text marked "(Scientific American, Oct, 1994 with some minor revisions)" and "Last modified: Wed Jan 02 1997", read in a copy of the MIT Media Lab site hosted at web.mit.edu (the original address returns HTTP 404). Not compared with the magazine pages.
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- Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligenceMinsky's article of 1994 answers its title question, whether robots will inherit the earth, "Yes, but they will be our children."1994-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence: propositions page →
- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableMinsky's article of 1994 (revised web text), asking whether machines will replace us, states that he does not feel it makes much sense to think in terms of "us" and "them", and that he prefers Moravec's suggestion to think of future intelligent machines as "mind-children". It answers "Will robots inherit the earth?" with "Yes, but they will be our children."1994-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Human minds transferred into machinesMinsky's article of 1994 states that humans will eventually replace their brains entirely using nanotechnology and, in replacing every part of body and brain, make themselves into machines.1994-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Human minds transferred into machines: propositions page →
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