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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Influential AI safety researcher

Eliezer Yudkowsky founded the field of AI Safety and is one of the world's leading voices on AI alignment. As a co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the founder of the Less Wrong rationalist community, he is one of the most outspoken people calling for an immediate halt to AI development.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky founded the field of AI Safety and is one of the world's leading voices on AI alignment. As a co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the founder of the Less Wrong rationalist community, he is one of the most outspoken people calling for an immediate halt to AI development.

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