As far as I know it’s being dropped in practice, but I don’t think it is going as far as a legal name change and it might take a while for the change to propagate.
The contest announcement only refers to SI(AI) as ‘the Singularity Institute’, so clearly the prepositional phrase is foredoomed to wither on the vine. This seems a reasonable decision, all things considered; the shorter name seems higher-status to me.
Is the “for Artificial Intelligence” still going to be part of the name (as of this logo redesign)? I recall Will said they might be dropping that.
As far as I know it’s being dropped in practice, but I don’t think it is going as far as a legal name change and it might take a while for the change to propagate.
The contest announcement only refers to SI(AI) as ‘the Singularity Institute’, so clearly the prepositional phrase is foredoomed to wither on the vine. This seems a reasonable decision, all things considered; the shorter name seems higher-status to me.