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The obvious change if Singularity has been co-opted is the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. (but IAI is not a great acronym).
Institute for Artifical Intelligence Safety lets you keep the S, but it's at the wrong spot. Safety Institution for Artificial Intelligence is off-puttingly incorrect.
The Institute for Friendly Artificial Intelligence (pron. eye-fay) is IFAI... maybe?
If you go with the Center for Friendly Artificial Intelligence you get CFAI, sort of parallel to CFAR (if that's what you want).
Oh! If associating with CFAR is okay, then what's really lovely is the Center for Friendly Artificial Intelligence Research, acronym as CFAIR. (You could even get to do cute elevator pitches asking people how they'd program their obviously well-defined "fairness" into an AI.)
Edit: I do agree that "Friendly" is not, on the whole, desirable. I prefer "Risk Reduction" to "Safety", because I think Safety might bring a little bit of the same unsophistication that Friendly would bring.
Including "Friendly" is good for those that understand that it is being used as a jargon term with a specific meaning. Unfortunately it could give an undesirable impression of unsophisticated to the naive audience (which is the target).
I also strongly object to 'Friendly' being used in the name -- it's a technical term that I think people are very likely to misunderstand.
Agreed that people are very likely to misunderstand it - however, even the obvious, naive reading still creates a useful approximation of what it is you guys actually do. I would consider that misreading to be a feature, not a flaw, because the layman's reading produces a useful layman's understanding.
The approximation might end up being 'making androids to be friends with people', or some kind of therapy-related research. Seriously. Given that even many people involved with AGI research do not seem to understand that Friendliness is a problem, I don't think that the first impression generated by that word will be favorable.
It would be convenient to find some laymen to test on, since our simulations of a layman's understanding may be in error.
I have no ability to do any actual random selection, but you raise a good point - some focus group testing on laymen would be a good precaution to take before settling on a name.
upvoted for CFAIR
I hate CFAIR.
But than Eliezer and co. could be called CFAIRers!
As long as they don't pledge themselves or emulated instances of themselves for 10 billion man-years of labor.
So far I like IFAI best; it's conscise and sounds like a logical update of SIAI.
"At first they were just excited about all kinds of singularities, now they've decided how to best get to one" is what someone who only ever heard the name "IFAI (formerly SIAI)" would think.