About the Author
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY is one of the founding researchers of the field of AGI alignment, which is concerned with understanding how smarter-than-human intelligences think, behave, and pursue their goals. He appeared on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People In AI, was one of the twelve public figures featured in The New York Times’s “Who’s Who Behind the Dawn of the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement,” and was one of the seven thought leaders spotlighted in The Washington Post’s discussion of “AI’s Rival Factions.” He spoke on the main stage at 2023’s TED conference and has been discussed or interviewed in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Forbes, Wired, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Economist, and many other venues. He has close to 200,000 followers on X, where he frequently dialogues with prominent public figures including the heads of frontier AI labs.
