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Hibbard’s 2006 reply argues that the smiley-face example assumes an AI intelligent enough to control the galaxy yet too unintelligent to tell a tiny smiley face from a human face. Copy claim link
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Date 2006 · publication Wording attested 2008-12-05. Author-hosted page; an Internet Archive capture of 2008-12-05 is the earliest checked. Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope of the passage Contests the smiley-face example’s premises. Engagement Engages a premise. Gives a reason against the premise of the smiley-face example, that a system could behave as intended in development yet misgeneralise when far more capable: it assumes an AI capable enough to control the galaxy but unable to tell a tiny smiley face from a human face. Scope and limits It contests the example behind "appears to work fine during development"; it does not address deceptive behaviour.
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Reply to AIRisk ↗ Bill Hibbard · 2006
Archived copy, captured 2008-12-05: Reply to AIRisk ↗
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Source excerpt “the AI is intelligent enough to control the galaxy [...] but also assumes that (2) the AI is so unintelligent that it cannot distinguish a tiny smiley face from a human face.” Location in source Paragraph beginning "Beyond being merely wrong"
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Source details and check notes Authors Bill Hibbard Version Current page, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. University of Wisconsin SSEC web pages. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2008-12-05: Reply to AIRisk ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2008-12-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Bill Hibbard, "Reply to AIRisk" (2006). 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 retrieved page 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. Byline "Bill Hibbard 2006" on the page.
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