US EditionYudkowsky Critiques OpenAI's Stated Goals
Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, argues unaligned AI may cause human extinction and calls for strict international bans to prevent catastrophe.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky, in his new book with Nate Soares, argues near-future AGI will cause global Armageddon and calls for an international ban up to nuclear retaliation; he said, `That was the day I realized that humanity probably wasn’t going to survive this` about OpenAI's launch.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky cofounded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, later renamed the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, to prevent doomer scenarios and helped define the alignment problem.
- High-Profile tech figures like Sam Altman have praised Yudkowsky, who produced extensive fanfiction including 1.8M words of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, reflecting his unconventional output.
- OpenAI's Superalignment Team has run with alignment ideas within a multi-billion dollar company supporting the US economy, while David Krueger at the University of Montreal says superhuman AI will kill everybody.
- Yudkowsky's personal tragedy, with Yehuda's 2004 death, led him to donate $1800 to Machine Intelligence Research Institute and cite a `99.5%` catastrophe risk in his longtermist calculus.
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