Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating
An essay by Steven Pinker, Edge.org, dated 2015. The Edge page files the response under the 2015 Annual Question; no day or month is given.
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- Thinking Does Not Imply Subjugating Edge.org, 2015 Annual Question "What do you think about machines that think?" · published 2015 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 a3708aa2e21f7fab98ee58ec0dc65d0ba1188e6ea8673831093a2a3967f64c72). current Edge.org response page retrieved 2026-10-29; the response is printed in Brockman (ed.), What to Think About Machines That Think (2015), pp. 5-8, which 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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- Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re WrongRussell's article of 8 October 2019 replies to Pinker, whom it names, quoting wording that appears in Pinker's Edge response of 2015.2019-10-08 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Russell, Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI (IEEE Spectrum, 2019): document page →
- Optimal Farsighted Agents Tend to Seek PowerTurner's paper of 3 December 2019 (arXiv v1) cites Pinker's 2015 response by title and states that its theorems contradict the position it expresses.2019-12-03 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Turner, Optimal Farsighted Agents Tend to Seek Power (arXiv v1, 2019): document page →
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- Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominatePinker's Edge response of 2015 argues that an artificially intelligent system would have no reason to want to disable safeguards against harm, because goals are extraneous to intelligence and dominance-seeking is a product of natural selection in one primate species, not a feature of intelligent systems.2015 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominate: propositions page →
- Advanced AI can be kept under control by designPinker's Edge response of 2015 argues that roboticists will build in safeguards against harm as they proceed, with the common sense that went into the design of other machines, and that slow progress leaves time for feedback from incremental implementations.2015 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Advanced AI can be kept under control by design: propositions page →
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