If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a founding researcher of the field of AI alignment, with influential work spanning more than twenty years. As co-founder of the non-profit Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Yudkowsky sparked early scientific research on the problem and has played a major role in shaping the public conversation about smarter-than-human AI. He appeared on Time magazine’s 2023 list of the 100 Most Influential People In AI, and has been discussed or interviewed in the New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Forbes, Wired, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Economist, Washington Post, and elsewhere.

Nate Soares is the president of the non-profit Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He has been working in the field for over a decade, after previous experience at Microsoft and Google. Soares is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, including foundational work on value learning, decision theory, and power-seeking incentives in smarter-than-human AIs.