Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026

Which located texts, from 1979 to 2026, state, contest or bear on ten propositions about machine intelligence: that machines succeed humans, that this would be acceptable, that minds move into machines, that building such machines brings conflict, that machine intelligence vastly exceeds human intelligence, that capital is itself a machine intelligence, that intelligence is its own end, that development should be accelerated, and that machine intelligence is a cosmic process that spreads beyond Earth? For each proposition, which text is the earliest located?

Each row is one text’s stance on one proposition, as a stored record states it: articulates, contests or bears on. A stance belongs to the text, not to its author. Rows are in date order, which records no influence between texts. Authors appear as the texts’ own bylines print them, pseudonyms included. “Earliest located” marks only a text the collection’s records name as the earliest the searches found.

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