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“Creating Friendly AI” (2001-06-15) contests Y25. In its section on the flight recorder, it says a cheaper “poor man’s flight recorder” works only if an AI’s desire to obscure its thoughts is visible in the record, recognisable by a human with trusted tools, and recorded before the obscuring is carried out. Copy claim link
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Date 2001-06-15 · publication Records dated 2001 → Wording attested 2001-06-17. The cross-family re-check of 2026-11-02 read the paragraph in the 2001 HTML edition as captured on 2001-06-17; the quotation itself is taken from MIRI’s later reprint and was not compared with that capture in this session. 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 we can see what an AI system is thinking. Scope and limits Premise addressed: We can see what an AI system is thinking. The passage states conditions under which reading an AI’s intentions from a record works, so it limits the premise rather than rejecting monitoring; the same section defends the recorder as a precaution. Recorded by the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-07 (re-check sheet, decision 3a) after the cross-family re-check of 2026-11-02 (role 102). The document’s table of design assumptions, known only from the reprint, stays recorded as context.
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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 “A “poor man’s flight recorder” only works if the desire to obscure (a) is visible at the level being recorded, (b) is recognizable as “the desire to obscure” by a human analyzing the recording using trusted tools, and (c) is recorded before actual obscuration can be planned and carried out.” Location in source Section 5.3.7 “FAI Hardware: The Flight Recorder”, final paragraph, printed p. 128 (section 3.3.7 in the 2001 HTML edition)
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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) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2026-10-01: Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (MIRI reprint) ↗ . Captured 9239 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2026-10-01. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.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 The quotation (47 words) matched on 2026-11-07 the reprint as retrieved that day, whose SHA-256 (51f21b8b70c2b7324c20de85edea40b2ef224cadff56ef7e0a3aa2a08dba2752) equals the stored value. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 3.3: Seed AI goal systems (2001 HTML edition) ↗ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence · 2001-06-15
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Paraphrase In the 2001 HTML edition the final paragraph of the flight-recorder section states the same three conditions under which a poor man’s recorder works: the desire to obscure is visible at the recorded level, recognisable by a human using trusted tools, and recorded before obscuration.
Location in source Section 3.3.7 “FAI Hardware: The Flight Recorder”, final paragraph before the notes, page seed.html
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Raw Internet Archive capture of 2001-06-17, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. Section 3.3 here is section 5.3 in MIRI’s reprint. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2001-06-17: Creating Friendly AI 1.0, section 3.3: Seed AI goal systems (2001 HTML edition) ↗ . Captured 2 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-06-17. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, Creating Friendly AI 1.0 (Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2001). 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 The cross-family re-check of 2026-11-02 (role 102) read this paragraph in the archive capture of 2001-06-17 linked from the source; this is its reading, labelled as such. The session that recorded it on 2026-11-07 could not reach the archive (connection reset) and matched the wording only in MIRI’s reprint. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. 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. 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.
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