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Eliezer Yudkowsky

American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 23, 2026
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Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics, known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence. He is the founder of and a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California.

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“Eliezer Yudkowsky” enters the record as american AI researcher and writer (born 1979). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eliezer, Yudkowsky and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eliezer Yudkowsky” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.