Claim · 2015-10-28 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The Future of Life Institute's open letter on research priorities of 2015 recommends expanded research to ensure that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial, stating that AI systems must do what we want them to do.

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What it connects

Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter → bears on → Difficulty of alignment

Where it appears

Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letterbears on ↓Difficulty of alignment

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Date: 2015-10-28 · publication Records dated 2015 →
Claimed date: 2015-01. The letter was released in January 2015; the current page gives 28 October 2015 as its publication date.
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: The letter does not state that the problem is hard, unsolved or not solved by default; it recommends research.

Scope and limitsA signed statement records what the statement says, not each signatory's views. The letter recommends research; it does not state that alignment is hard or will not be solved by default.

The evidence 01

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Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter

Future of Life Institute (futureoflife.org) · 2015-10-28

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Source excerpt

“We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do.”

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Authors: Future of Life Institute
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 0674f00ad451e6173b07ccbf30bf7acea741201ec951a9d1f74c157727d8c3d4). Current page as served on 2026-10-29; the page states "Published 28 October, 2015", while the letter was released in January 2015.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Future of Life Institute, “Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter”, 2015-10-28.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (27 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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