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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:22, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Existential risk from artificial ignorance (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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The topic of this article is essentially redundant with existential risk from artificial general intelligence. There is no concept of 'artificial ignorance' that is covered as per WP:GNG, nor have I personally ever heard the term outside of the comic series and the blog post linked in the article, neither of which provide any sort of clear explanation or discussion or notability. The other sources in the article refer to fairly disparate ideas, e.g. cybersecurity, environmental disasters, bots, superintelligence, and so on, which are presented as all part of a general concept of 'artificial ignorance' when the sources do not support such an aggregation or idea. So it's effectively original research. Nothing worth merging either, IMO. K.Bog 04:38, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:06, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete A better article already exists, as noted in nomination. "Artificial Ignorance" as a term stems from unreliable sources such as the citations to a webcomic and a Hindu's blog. ValarianB (talk) 17:12, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. A superior article already exists, as mentioned in the AfD nomination. The concept of "Artificial Ignorance" is not supported by reliable sources. desmay (talk) 23:09, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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