"The researcher who spent two decades on the alignment problem."
Eliezer Yudkowsky founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and spent two decades arguing that a smarter-than-human optimiser would not automatically share human values. TIME listed him among the most influential people in AI.
Our in-depth summaries and reviews of his work
Yudkowsky and Soares argue that if anyone builds superintelligence with current methods, humanity loses. Grown AIs will not want what you trained.…
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"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else."— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Yudkowsky and Soares argue that if anyone builds superintelligence with current methods, humanity loses. Grown AIs will not want what you trained. Here's the field guide.
