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Yudkowsky’s announcement of 1998-09-07 gives Coding a Transhuman AI the alternative titles "Notes on the Design of Self-Enhancing Intelligences" and "The Art of Seed AIs". Copy claim link
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Date 1998-09-07 · publication Role Context, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “seed AI” Missing element The message names the new page by its titles; it does not state the concept. Scope and limits The earliest dated use of "seed AI" located, shared with Yudkowsky’s message 2209 of the same evening; it is not evidence of coinage. The message credits Max More’s challenge that human-level AI need not imply transhuman AI.
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SITE: Coding A Transhuman AI (temp) (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · 1998-09-07
Archived copy, captured 2015-04-28: SITE: Coding A Transhuman AI (temp) (Extropians mailing list) ↗
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Source excerpt “also known as / Notes on the Design of Self-Enhancing Intelligences / The Art of Seed AIs” Location in source Message body, alternative titles listed under the page URL (line breaks shown as " / ")
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search; quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. Archive at extropians.weidai.com. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2015-04-28: SITE: Coding A Transhuman AI (temp) (Extropians mailing list) ↗ . Captured 6077 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2015-04-28. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, "SITE: Coding A Transhuman AI (temp)", Extropians mailing list, 1998-09-07. 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 archive HTML on 2026-10-06 (hash matched the 1996–2022 candidate search); " / " marks the title line breaks. 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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Date. Sent header: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 22:17:50 -0500 (sender-local date).
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