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Levels of Organization in General Intelligence defines a seed AI as an AI designed for self-understanding, self-modification and recursive self-improvement, and treats recursive self-improvement as a consequence of seed AI rather than a cheap way to achieve AI. Copy claim link
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Date 2007 · publication Wording attested Only in a later, undated copy. MIRI reprint marked "This version contains minor changes"; not compared with the 2007 chapter. Role Most developed Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The fullest seed-AI treatment located: it distinguishes weak from strong self-improvement and describes "epochs" of recursive self-improvement, cautioning that early seed AI is dominated by its human programmers. An editorial judgement among the located texts.
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Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (MIRI reprint) ↗ Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2007
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Source excerpt “A seed AI is an AI designed for self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-improvement. [...] Recursive self-improvement is a consequence of seed AI, not a cheap way to achieve AI.” Location in source Section 3 "Seed AI", introduction, printed p. 96; section 3.2 "Recursive Self-enhancement", printed p. 102 (PDF pp. 97, 103)
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version MIRI reprint, "This version contains minor changes", retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2013-08-16: Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (MIRI reprint) ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2013-08-16. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence", in Artificial General Intelligence (2007); MIRI reprint. 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 Checked against the reprint’s text layer on 2026-10-06. 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.
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