I. J. Good
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I. J. Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park alongside Alan Turing. After World War II, he continued collaborating with Turing on computer design and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester before relocating to the United States, where he became a professor at Virginia Tech. He is known for first theorizing the concept of recursive self-improvement in AI systems in 1965, an idea later formalized by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008.
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