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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Machine Intelligence Research InstituteCo-Founder

🇺🇸 AmericanBorn 1979

Yudkowsky co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and spent two decades arguing that misaligned superintelligent AI poses an existential threat — work that helped define the field of AI alignment and the rationalist community around LessWrong. In 2025 he and Nate Soares published the bestseller If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

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