When and where was Eliezer Yudkowsky born?
Eliezer Yudkowsky was born on the 11th of September 1979 in New Jersey. He never attended high school or college despite his deep engagement with complex subjects from a young age.
Eliezer Yudkowsky was born on the 11th of September 1979 in New Jersey. He never attended high school or college despite his deep engagement with complex subjects from a young age.
Eliezer Yudkowsky established the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California to focus on artificial intelligence safety research. The institute operates independently from major universities or government bodies while ensuring future superintelligent systems remain beneficial to humanity.
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig cited Eliezer Yudkowsky's work in their undergraduate textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. They noted the difficulty of specifying general-purpose goals by hand in software systems and highlighted his proposal for autonomous systems learning correct behavior over time.
Time magazine published an op-ed by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the 16th of February 2023 discussing risks posed by artificial intelligence development. In this article he advocated for international agreements to limit progress including a total halt on new AI projects.
Eliezer Yudkowsky founded LessWrong as a community blog devoted to refining human rationality in February 2009. Over 300 blog posts originally written for these platforms were released as an ebook titled Rationality: From AI to Zombies which MIRI published in 2015 under the name The Sequences.