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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Footnote 5

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The claim states the institute was formally incorporated on July 27, 2000, under Georgia nonprofit law, but this information is not found in the provided source. The claim states the original stated purpose was to accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence on the assumption that greater intelligence would entail greater moral behavior, but the source only mentions the purpose of accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute(1 check)

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Found: In 2000, Yudkowsky co-founded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) with Brian Atkins and Sabine Atkins (then Sabine Stoeckel), with initial funding provided by the Atkinses. Th…

Note: The claim states the institute was formally incorporated on July 27, 2000, under Georgia nonprofit law, but this information is not found in the provided source. The claim states the original stated purpose was to accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence on the assumption that greater intelligence would entail greater moral behavior, but the source only mentions the purpose of accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

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