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“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) bears on Y14. A table cell contrasting assumptions that are conservative in futurism with those that are conservative for Friendly AI design. In the same row, the futurism column reads that the AI is vulnerable because someone can always pull the plug on the first version if something goes wrong. 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 conservative design assumption in a table, not a forecast that failures with powerful AI will be unrecoverable. Scope and limits Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. Creating Friendly AI is dated 15 June 2001; the cached text is a later MIRI-hosted PDF reprint, and table cells were reconstructed from extracted PDF text. Presented as the conservative design assumption rather than a forecast. A design assumption in the "conservative" column of a table, contrasted with the futurist assumption that someone can always pull the plug; not a forecast. 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 “Get it right the first time”: Zero nonrecoverable errors necessary in first version to reach transhumanity.” Location in source Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 2.2 'Assumptions “Conservative” for Friendly AI', table, column 'Conservative Assumptions In Friendly AI', last row, printed p. 7
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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 T14-a. The quotation (16 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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