Person
Samuel Butler
Cited in three posts, among them TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of… and AI-caused catastrophe, since September 2026
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“Historically, the risk posed to humanity by advanced AI systems was first recognized in fiction, by authors such as Samuel Butler (1863) and Karel Capek (1920) .”
· TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI · machine-resolved