person
Hans Moravec
Robotics pioneer; 'Mind Children' (1948–)
Carnegie Mellon robotics pioneer who in 1988 wrote Mind Children predicting robotic descendants of humanity. Foundational reference for AI succession debates.
current Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
Strategy positions
Abandon superintelligenceopposes
Reject superintelligence as a goal entirely; narrow AI onlyArgued in Mind Children (1988) and Robot (1999) that AI succession is the natural and welcome next step of evolution. Position later refined by Sutton and others.
“We are very near the time when virtually no human function, physical or mental, will lack an artificial counterpart.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.