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Creating Friendly AI uses the phrase "recursive self-improvement" in its definition of a seed AI. Copy claim link
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Date 2001-06-15 · publication Wording attested 2001-06-17. The quoted wording is that of the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-17; earlier version-history dates do not authenticate it. Role Context, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “recursive self-improvement” Missing element The sentence names recursive self-improvement as a design aim without describing how improvements feed each other. Scope and limits The earliest dated use of the exact phrase located; earlier texts describe self-improvement in other words. The linked General Intelligence and Seed AI uses "recursive self-enhancement".
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Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 3.3: Seed AI goal systems (2001 HTML edition) ↗ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence · 2001-06-15
Archived copy, captured 2001-06-17: Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 3.3: Seed AI goal systems (2001 HTML edition) ↗
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Source excerpt “A "seed AI" is an AI designed for self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-improvement.” Location in source Opening of section 3.3 "Seed AI goal systems" (section 5.3, printed p. 99, in MIRI’s reprint)
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Raw Internet Archive capture of 2001-06-17, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. Section 3.3 here is section 5.3 in MIRI’s reprint. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2001-06-17: Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 3.3: Seed AI goal systems (2001 HTML edition) ↗ . Captured 2 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-06-17. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2001). 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 The same passage as the A2 record. 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. Release date of version 1.0, as given in the citation line of MIRI’s reprint.
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