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In 1964 the CIA concluded Soviet AI research matched the US and could outpace it. That same year, at a Moscow conference of 1,000 scientists, a leading mathematician argued on the record that a machine "sufficiently complete" should legally be called a thinking being.

"The Cold War was just a benchmark contest we didn't know we were losing."

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An archival deep dive reveals that the CIA viewed Soviet AI progress as a peer threat as early as 1964. During this era, prominent Soviet mathematicians were already debating the legal definition of machine consciousness and the moral status of thinking beings.

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In 1964 the CIA concluded Soviet AI research matched the US and could outpace it. That same year, at a Moscow conference of 1,000 scientists, a leading mathematician argued on the record that a machine "sufficiently complete" should legally be called a thinking being.

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