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The Center for AI Safety-- best of the bunch. It might be clearer as The Center for Safe AI.
The I.J. Good Institute-- I have no idea what the IJ stands for.
Beneficial Architectures Research-- sounds like an effort to encourage better buildings.
A.I. Impacts Research-- reads like a sentence. It might be better as Research on AI Impacts.
Indeed - it better implies that you're actually working towards safe AI, as opposed to just worrying about whether it's going to be safe, or lobbying for OSHA-like safety regulations.
Irving John ("Jack").
I would guess that exactly zero of my non-Less Wronger friends have ever heard of I. J. Good.
Which is fine; to everyone else, it's some guy's name, with moderately positive affect. I'd be less in favour of this scheme if the idea of intelligence explosion had first been proposed by noted statistician I J Bad.
Now I have Johnny C Bad playing in my head.
(Well, not really, but it made for a fun comment.)
Better than Johnny D Ugly.
Did you not understand that "I.J. Good" is a person's name? (Note that in this thread ciphergoth asserts that everyone recognizes the form as a name, despite your comment which I read as a counterexample.)
Until I read the comment thread, I thought maybe it was facetious and stood for "It's Just Good".
At this point, I'm not sure what I was thinking. It's plausible that knowing what the initials meant would be enough to identify the person.
I'm pretty sure I was thinking "ok, I. J. Good founded a foundation, but who cares?".
I can imagine, upon discovering that the "I.J.Good Institute" is interested in developing stably ethical algorithms, deciding that the name was some sort of pun... that it stood for "Invariant Joint Good" or some such thing.