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United States Eliezer Yudkowsky is a pioneering AI alignment researcher and co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, dedicated to ensuring artificial intelligence development benefits humanity.
Featured on TIME magazine's 2023 list of the 100 Most Influential People In AI and published an op-ed discussing AI risk and advocating for international agreements to limit AI development.
Served as a principal contributor to the 'Overcoming Bias' blog, sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, between 2006 and 2009.
Co-authored 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,' published by Little, Brown and Company on September 16, 2025.
Founder of this community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality, where over 300 of his blog posts on philosophy and science were originally published.
Appeared on The New York Times podcast "Hard Fork" to discuss AI risks and co-authored an article with Nate Soares.
Cited in a Business Insider article regarding his warnings about superintelligent AI and the risks it poses to humanity.
Eliezer Yudkowsky was born on September 11, 1979, in Chicago, Illinois. He is an autodidact who did not pursue traditional high school or college education. From an early age, Yudkowsky developed a deep interest in artificial intelligence and its potential long-term impacts on humanity. His work began to influence the nascent field of AI safety, where he focused on the challenge of aligning advanced AI systems with human values.
Yudkowsky is a founding researcher in the field of AI alignment and co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. Over more than two decades, he has significantly shaped the technical research agenda at MIRI and other research centers. His contributions include coining the term “friendly artificial intelligence” and popularizing ideas related to AI safety. He has authored several academic works, including chapters in “The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence” and “Global Catastrophic Risks.” His views on the safety challenges posed by future AI systems are discussed in Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig’s undergraduate textbook “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.”
In 2023, Yudkowsky was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In AI. He is also known for his extensive rationality writing, including over 300 blog posts compiled into the ebook “Rationality: From AI to Zombies” (2015) and “Inadequate Equilibria” (2017). His fanfiction novel, “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality,” explores scientific and rational thinking through a fictional lens. Recently, he co-authored the book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” published in 2025 by Little, Brown and Company, which further details potential existential risks from advanced AI.
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