Propositions about superintelligence, 1863–2022

Which located texts from 1863 to 2022 state, dispute or bear on propositions about machine intelligence? The propositions concern intelligence rising faster than earlier change, and people’s means of observing and directing it becoming inadequate. For each, 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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