Don’t Fear the Terminator
An essay by Anthony Zador and Yann LeCun, Scientific American, dated 26 September 2019. The Scientific American page dates the article September 26, 2019.
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- Don’t Fear the Terminator Scientific American, Observations blog (blogs.scientificamerican.com) · published 2019-09-26 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 beab5eef4647b644601d4282643af50efe7453cb03633f2707ae4898f8b0bfc1). current Scientific American page dated September 26, 2019, marked as published in its former blog network.
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- Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominateZador and LeCun's essay of 26 September 2019 argues that intelligence does not by itself generate a drive for domination, and that AI systems, which did not pass through natural selection, did not need to evolve a survival instinct.2019-09-26 · 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 designZador and LeCun's essay of 26 September 2019 states that even in the worst case, in which wars might be fought by armies of superintelligent robots, the robots will remain under human command.2019-09-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Advanced AI can be kept under control by design: propositions page →
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- Instrumental convergenceZador and LeCun's essay of 26 September 2019 argues that because AI systems did not pass through natural selection they did not need to evolve a survival instinct, so that intelligence and survival are decoupled in AI.2019-09-26 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Instrumental convergence: propositions page →
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