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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.
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.