Two Questions and Answers from the OpenCyc FAQ
http://www.opencyc.org/faq/opencyc_faq#138668976

Where does the name "Cyc" come from?

  "Cyc" comes from the word "encyclopedia". The Cyc
Project set out 
  to represent in computer usable form the knowledge needed to 
  understand an encyclopedia. Not the knowledge in an encyclopedia, 
  but the things the author of an encyclopedia article feels are too 
  broadly understood to bother writing. This knowledge that can be 
  taken for granted is what we call "common sense".


What happens if Cyc decides that human beings are responsible for
world chaos? It may decide to eliminate us.  Is Cyc controlled by
Asimov's Laws of Robotics?  Shouldn't it be?

  Because Cyc currently cannot initiate any actions, we are 
  safeguarded for now from the potential catastrophe you describe.

  As Cyc grows in capability to the point where it can "do things" 
  and perform self-improvement, we will have already incorporated 
  enough commonsense knowledge about what goals are right and 
  wrong, and most importantly - why.

  We want an Artificial General Intelligence to have unity of will 
  with its developers. There will be no need to restrain it, and we 
  could not restrain it anyway as sometime in the future it will be 
  smarter than us.



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