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Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Eliezer Yudkowsky · Technology & Engineering

What

AI-safety researcher; founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, coined the friendly-AI research programme

When

11 September 1979, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Eliezer Yudkowsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — AI-safety researcher; founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, coined the friendly-AI research programme

How & why

Eliezer Yudkowsky founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and put the question of aligning artificial intelligence with human survival on the research map two decades before it reached governments. He wrote the rationality sequences that became the site LessWrong, the fan novel 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality', and co-authored 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'. He is Jewish and was raised a Modern Orthodox Jew, and is now secular.

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AI-safety researcher; founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, coined the friendly-AI research programme

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