Eliezer Yudkowsky

Why you should listen

With more than 20 years of experience in the world of artificial intelligence, Eliezer Yudkowsky is a founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a nonprofit established to ensure that smarter-than-human AI has a positive impact on the world.

For decades, Yudkowsky has warned about the problem of "unfriendly" or "misaligned" smarter-than-human AI, and has pushed for technical research on making AI systems more reliable and predictable. Those worries have since gone mainstream, as industry leaders have come together to issue a public warning that "human extinction" is a genuine risk of future breakthroughs in AI. Yudkowsky's call to action is a simple one: we need an immediate, indefinite, worldwide moratorium on developing generalist frontier artificial intelligence systems.