Claim · 2006 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Hibbard (2006) attributes to Yudkowsky's draft chapter the criticism that Hibbard's 2001 article is an example of technical failure for using reinforcement learning, and disputes that criticism.

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What it connects

Reply to AIRisk → attributes to → Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Reply to AIRiskattributes to ↓Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2006 · publication Records dated 2006 →
Kind of attribution: Attributes an argument to the work and disputes it

Scope and limitsThe citing text responds to a pre-publication draft circulated for feedback; the published chapter's wording may differ, and the reply is not evidence that the criticism or the rebuttal is correct.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Reply to AIRisk

Bill Hibbard · 2006

Archived copy, captured 2008-12-05: Reply to AIRisk

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Paraphrase

Hibbard writes that the chapter cites his 2001 article as an example of technical failure because it uses reinforcement learning as the framework for describing AI.

Location in source page text, opening paragraph

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Bill Hibbard
Version: Current page, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. University of Wisconsin SSEC web pages.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2008-12-05: Reply to AIRisk. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2008-12-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
Attribution: Bill Hibbard, "Reply to AIRisk" (2006).
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, key papers (research/key-papers). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Paraphrased by the integrator: the dataset already quotes 32 of the 33 words allowed from this short message. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item B009) found the attribution at its locator and in the citing text’s reference entry. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A document expressly attributes an argument, concept, term, finding or approach to another work, in its own words; the kind of attribution is recorded. The record is the citing document’s claim. It is not evidence that the cited work originated the idea, that the attribution is accurate, or of influence beyond the passage. Citation alone is recorded as a citation.

Date. Date of the citing text as the dataset records it (2006).

Record ID kp-shaping-hibbard-yudkowsky