Choose an institution to see its records and dossier, or choose a topic.
Through year 2027 · all records, including scheduled dates 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2005 1965 Show Organisations and infrastructure All types Organisation Person Document Concept Infrastructure Public body Reset filters
94 people, organisations and other records · 122 relationships · 34 claims about a valueEverything recorded up to the chosen year, whether or not still in effect · Undated records included
Claim and evidence Close ×
The SL4 message “Re: Military in or out?” (2001-02-26) bears on Y24. In a thread on military involvement in AI, he says the US should not be the first to treat AI projects as intelligence targets or use AI for information warfare, and that compromising Friendliness for national objectives would endanger planetary security. Copy claim link
Copy claim reference
Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editor Stated in source Supported
Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source
Date 2001-02-26 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element About national military use and escalation of AI, not about a race to build the first superintelligence. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. About national military use and escalation of AI rather than a race to build the first superintelligence; states the contrary stance without engaging a specific 'build it first' argument. About not being first to make AI projects intelligence targets or to use AI in information warfare, not about being first to build AGI; the ellipsis omits a concession about defensive combat AI. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.
The evidence 01 primary source Supports the claim
Re: Military in or out? (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2001-02-26
Copy source reference
Cite the original source Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.
Copy APA
Download BibTeX Download RIS Download CSL-JSON
Source excerpt “my answer will be "no first use" and "no escalation". … being the first party to compromise Friendliness, for *any* reason, would compromise planetary security, regardless of any short-term national objectives served.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'If anyone asks me my views…'
Machine-checked · 2026-10-07
Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 01706f65393721bb88fc4c87444d9285de1bcf1d487a56e560b9473fd8614b01); 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: Military in or out?”, SL4 mailing list, 2001-02-26. 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 T24-s1. The quotation (32 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 01706f65393721bb88fc4c87444d9285de1bcf1d487a56e560b9473fd8614b01) 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 bears on the proposition without meeting its criterion; the record names the missing element. It is not an articulation and implies no influence.
Date. Archive author index lists the message as "Mon Feb 26 2001 - 00:51:15 MST" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y24-sl4-2001-02-26-yudkowsky-0102-0603-b