Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics. He is best known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence, including the idea of a "fire alarm" for AI. He is a co-founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California.

Yudkowsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1979. He did not attend high school or college, but instead taught himself mathematics, physics, and computer science. In 2000, he founded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (now MIRI), with the goal of preventing an existential catastrophe from artificial general intelligence.

Yudkowsky is the author of several books and articles on AI, including the popular blog LessWrong. He is also a co-author of the book Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk, which was published by the National Academies Press in 2012.

Yudkowsky is a controversial figure in the AI community. Some people believe that his ideas are too extreme, while others believe that he is one of the most important thinkers on the subject of AI safety.