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The SL4 message “Revising a Friendly AI” (2000-12-10) contests Y03. Replying to Ben Goertzel, he grants in the preceding paragraph that a superintelligence would have the capability to know that turning the universe into copies of its creators is 'stupid and not what was intended', but says knowing is not enough: the AI must want to check, model it accurately and act on it. Copy claim link
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Date 2000-12-10 · publication Role Contesting, Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Under the message-level rule, the passage, read with the paragraph, message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that if an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. Scope and limits Premise addressed: If an AI understands what we intend, it will act on that understanding. 'That sinking sensation' refers to the programmers' dismay at an unintended outcome, described in the preceding paragraph.
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Revising a Friendly AI (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2000-12-10
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Source excerpt “But that's only one third of the problem. First, ve has to *want* to know whether that sinking sensation will result. Second, ve has to model it accurately. Third, ve has to change vis behavior based on that model.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'But that's only one third of the problem'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 4fb349f96304ea9c661f22830b6831e3a8dba94ea90584ebabcf9a4ff7e46263); quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. The served archive shows later URL rewriting and does not authenticate historical bytes. Archive at sl4.org. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-07 Language English (en) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Revising a Friendly AI”, SL4 mailing list, 2000-12-10. 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 T03-s1. The quotation (39 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 4fb349f96304ea9c661f22830b6831e3a8dba94ea90584ebabcf9a4ff7e46263) when checked on 2026-10-07. 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.
Relation. A passage of the document disputes the proposition or a premise it depends on. The record documents the text’s position, not who is right.
Date. Archive author index lists the message as "Sun Dec 10 2000 - 19:56:20 MST" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y03-sl4-2000-12-10-yudkowsky-0012-0355-c