Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a founding researcher of the field of AI alignment and a co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

AI Is Grown, Not Built
Nobody knows exactly what an AI will become. That’s very bad.
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
September 15, 2025
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