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Atkins’s message of 2000-07-07 says that to really test what an AI will do once it is "loose", testers would have to give it a very realistic simulation of the world and watch what it does to the humans. Copy claim link
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Date 2000-07-07 · publication Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits About the limits of pre-release testing, without deception; Atkins doubts such a simulation is feasible.
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AI testing and containment Re: [SL4] Programmed morality (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2000-07-07
Archived copy, captured 2002-12-23: AI testing and containment Re: [SL4] Programmed morality (SL4 mailing list) ↗
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Source excerpt “test what an AI will do once it is "loose" [...] awesome simulation of the real world [...] see what it does to the humans.” Location in source Message body, second unquoted paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Brian Atkins Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. The served archive shows later URL rewriting elsewhere, so it does not authenticate the exact historical bytes. Archive at sl4.org. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2002-12-23: AI testing and containment Re: [SL4] Programmed morality (SL4 mailing list) ↗ . Captured 899 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2002-12-23. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Brian Atkins, "AI testing and containment Re: [SL4] Programmed morality", SL4 mailing list, 2000-07-07. 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). 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: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 12:33:56 -0400 (sender-local date).
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