Comment by I. J. Good

British statistician; Turing collaborator
an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would [...] be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. AI Verified source (1965)
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AI Verified Verified via web search. I.J. Good's 1965 paper "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine" (Advances in Computers) contains the famous passage: "an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind." The [...] correctly elides "then unquestionably". Good is correctly identified as British statistician and Turing collaborator. Vote "for" aligns perfectly with the statement "AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence" — this is the foundational quote of the intelligence explosion concept. Year 1965 matches the original publication. Source URL blocked by anti-bot but content verified across multiple authoritative sources (Wikipedia, History of Information, Quote Investigator). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 3d ago
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