Friendly Artificial Intelligence

A Friendly Artificial Intelligence or FAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) which has a positive rather than negative effect on humanity. Friendly AI also refers to the field of knowledge required to build such an AI. This term particularly applies to AIs which have the potential to significantly impact humanity, such as those with intelligence comparable to or exceeding that of humans. This specific term was coined by researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence as a term of art distinct from the everyday meaning of the word "friendly"; however, the concern is much older

Requirements for FAI and Effective FAI
The requirements for FAI to be effective, both internally, to protect humanity against unintended consequence of the AI in question and externally to protect against other non-FAIs arising from whatever source are:

• Friendliness that an AI feels sympathetic towards humanity and all life, and seeks for their best interests
• Conservation of Friendliness that an AI must desire to pass on its value system to its entire offspring and inculcate its values into others of its kind.
• Intelligence that an AI be smart enough to see how it might engage in altruistic behavior to the greatest degree of equality, so that it is not kind to some but more cruel to others as a consequence, and to balance interests effectively
• Self-improvement that an AI feel a sense of longing and striving for improvement both of itself and of all life as part of the consideration of wealth, while respecting and sympathizing with the informed choices of lesser intellects not to improve themselves
• First mover advantage.