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The SL4 message “Re: Fighting UFAI” (2005-07-13) contests Y19. Replying to Tennessee Leeuwenburg in a thread on fighting unfriendly AI, he says an unfriendly AI would not be evil but would reshape its surroundings by criteria that do not mention humans. Copy claim link
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Date 2005-07-13 · publication Role Contesting 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 an AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Scope and limits Premise addressed: An AI would harm humans only out of hostility. Earlier than ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’ (2008) but later than his SL4 message of 2002-06-23.
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Re: Fighting UFAI (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2005-07-13
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Source excerpt “Evil is a term that applies to cognitive systems, not systems of a particular size. And an UFAI is not evil; it just transforms local reality according to a decision criterion that makes no internal mention of human life.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'Evil nanotech?'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 7c6b98d1ab322db0e7bdbcc1cb9297921bb54f76781dae7865eaf188711aab56); 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, “Re: Fighting UFAI”, SL4 mailing list, 2005-07-13. 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 T19-s2. The quotation (39 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 7c6b98d1ab322db0e7bdbcc1cb9297921bb54f76781dae7865eaf188711aab56) 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 "Wed Jul 13 2005 - 21:12:28 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y19-sl4-2005-07-13-yudkowsky-0507-11483-c