Eliezer Yudkowsky

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field = Artificial intelligence
work_institutions = Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
known_for = Seed AI, Friendly AI
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born in 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the Singularity, and an advocate of Friendly Artificial Intelligence.

Yudkowsky is a co- and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). Yudkowsky is the author of the SIAI publications "Creating Friendly AI" (2001) and "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence" (2002). His most recent academic contributions include two chapters in Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's forthcoming edited volume "Global Catastrophic Risks". Yudkowsky is an autodidact with no formal education in artificial intelligence.

Yudkowsky's research work focuses on Artificial Intelligence designs which enable self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-improvement (seed AI); and also on artificial-intelligence architectures for stably benevolent motivational structures (Friendly AI). Apart from his research work, Yudkowsky is notable for his explanations of technical subjects in non-academic language, particularly on rationality, such as [http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning"] . He advocates the moral philosophy of Singularitarianism.

Yudkowsky is a frequent contributor to the Overcoming Bias blog of the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.

References

* "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology" by Ray Kurzweil, 2005, pp. 409, 420, & 489.
* "Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World" by Douglas Mulhall, 2002, p. 321.
* "The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies" by Damien Broderick, 2001, pp. 236, 265-272, 289, 321, 324, 326, 337-339, 345, 353, 370.
* [http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/04/43080?currentPage=all Making HAL Your Pal] by Declan McCullagh, WIRED, April 19, 2001.
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/11/LVG1J459UE1.DTL&type=printable The 'Singularity' of the nerds: Fringe group of computer programmers push toward a superhuman artificial intelligence] by Danielle Egan, San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2004.
* [http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep09/0,4670,SuperintelligentMachines,00.html Techies Ponder Computers Smarter Than Us] by Marcus Wohlson, Associated Press Writer, September 09, 2007.
* [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/death/mg19626251.800-death-special-the-plan-for-eternal-life.html Death special: The plan for eternal life] , by Danielle Egan, New Scientist, October 13, 2007.
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/12/BUG9IIMG1V197.DTL Smarter than thou? Stanford conference ponders a brave new world with machines more powerful than their creators] by Tom Abate, The San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 2006.
* [http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/technology/dumbest_googlegod/index.htm Google Is God: Imagining the Google future, here's scenario 4 (circa 2105): Human consciousness gets stored, upgraded, and networked] by Chris Taylor, CNN, January 25, 2006.
* [http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/16314.cfm Futurists warn of a dark side to technological advances] , The Canadian Press, Business Edge, September 21, 2007.

External links

* [http://yudkowsky.net/ Personal web site]
* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/bios/frame.html?main=/bios/bio0053.html Biography page at KurzweilAI.net]
* [http://www.singinst.org/aboutus/team/ Biography page at the Singularity Institute]
* [http://unjobs.org/authors/eliezer-yudkowsky Downloadable papers and bibliography]
* [http://www.overcomingbias.com/ Overcoming Bias] , a blog to which Yudkowsky contributes.
* [http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&act=ST&f=67&t=1097&st=0 Predicting The Future :: Eliezer Yudkowsky, NYTA Keynote Address - Feb 2003]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/11693 Video interview] with John Horgan on Bloggingheads.tv, June 2008

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