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“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) bears on Y01. Argues that a Friendly AI design should not rely on the AI having limited intelligence or on being able to constrain it by force. The table it points to (section 2.2) sets the assumption that 'someone can always pull the plug on the first version' against the design assumption of getting it right the first time. Copy claim link
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Date 2001-06-15 · publication Wording attested 2001-06-26. The quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-26; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element A design assumption that an AI cannot be forcibly constrained; it does not argue that shutdown or an added correction mechanism would fail. Scope and limits Premise addressed: A capable goal-directed system will not act to prevent its own shutdown or modification, and a shutdown or correction mechanism can simply be added to it. Creating Friendly AI is dated 15 June 2001; the cached text is a later MIRI-hosted PDF reprint whose wording has not been compared with a 2001 capture. The passage states a design-conservatism assumption, not a prediction that every AI will resist shutdown. Admission check, 2026-10-08: the quoted wording also appears in the 2001 HTML edition, so it is dated by that capture.
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Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (MIRI reprint) ↗ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence · 2001-06-15
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Source excerpt “Similarly, it is “conservative” (see below) to assume that AIs cannot be forcibly constrained.” Location in source Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 2 'Challenges of Friendly AI', paragraph beginning on printed p. 2 ('The term “Friendly AI” refers to…'); quoted sentence on p. 3
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Singularity Institute, MIRI reprint, retrieved 2026-10-06 (SHA-256 51f21b8b70c2b7324c20de85edea40b2ef224cadff56ef7e0a3aa2a08dba2752). Release date from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (MIRI reprint)”, Singularity Institute, MIRI reprint, 2001-06-15. 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 Candidate pack passage T01-a. The quotation (14 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 51f21b8b70c2b7324c20de85edea40b2ef224cadff56ef7e0a3aa2a08dba2752) when checked on 2026-10-06. primary source Supports the claim
Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 2: Challenges of Friendly AI (2001 HTML edition) ↗ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence · 2001-06-15
Archived copy, captured 2001-06-26: Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 2: Challenges of Friendly AI (2001 HTML edition) ↗
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Paraphrase The same wording as the quotation from MIRI’s reprint appears in the 2001 HTML edition captured on 2001-06-26.
Location in source The 2001 HTML edition, page challenge.html
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Raw Internet Archive capture of 2001-06-26, retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 e910a4f4aec9673a1dc69d006a40d44315acb6279f10fc9e6e3d79f5701dc603); used to date wording also quoted from MIRI’s reprint, not quoted itself. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2001-06-26: Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 2: Challenges of Friendly AI (2001 HTML edition) ↗ . Captured 11 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-06-26. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2001). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases. Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Compared on 2026-10-08 after normalising quotation marks, dashes and whitespace. 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 from the reprint; an open-commentary version was announced on SL4 on 2001-04-18, so some wording may be earlier than this date. Reprint wording is not authenticated for 2001 unless a capture was compared.
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