The Age of Robots
An essay by Hans Moravec, Hans Moravec, dated June 1993. The page is headed "June 1993", the date the author gives the text; when the page was posted is not stated. The author's publication list gives the printing in Extro 1 (1994).
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- The Age of Robots Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives Extro 1, Proceedings of the First Extropy Institute Conference (1994), pp. 84-100 · published 1993-06 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 d9c8c362a90f00eccc3e375b92428b7eb05ccad57e0021ab2b9fb9189f0bf55e). Author-hosted HTML headed "The Age of Robots June 1993 by Hans Moravec", "(8500 words)". Earliest capture located: 2000-08-17 (not compared). Printed version not inspected.
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- Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligenceMoravec's essay of 1993 states that robots will eventually reason like humans and that, depending on the reader's point of view, humanity will then have produced "a worthy successor" or transformed itself, and that fourth-generation robots will design their own successors. In a section on the early 2000s it describes money from robot industries, collected as corporate taxes, funding "the long, comfortable retirement of the entire original-model human race".1993-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence spreads beyond EarthMoravec's essay of 1993 states that outer space is the arena where "freely compounding superintelligence, too dangerous for Earth" can grow, with some entities pushing on to the nearby stars.1993-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth: propositions page →
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- Conflict over building superhuman machinesMoravec's essay of 1993 states that some humans would pursue robotic self-transformation clandestinely if it were outlawed, with potential for "very ugly confrontations", and proposes an escape clause sending such people into space.1993-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Conflict over building superhuman machines: propositions page →
- Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligenceMoravec's essay of 1993 states that future robot corporations will be "corporate intelligences" and superintelligences competing for human customers under corporate law.1993-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence: propositions page →
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