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Levels of Organization in General Intelligencearticulates ↓Recursive self-improvement

Levels of Organization in General Intelligence describes recursive self-improvement as a consequence of seed AI.

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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: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsSection 3.2 is titled "Recursive Self-enhancement".

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Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (MIRI reprint)

Machine Intelligence Research Institute · 2007

Archived copy, captured 2013-08-16: Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (MIRI reprint)

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“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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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.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
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Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence", in Artificial General Intelligence (2007); MIRI reprint.
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