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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.

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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What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?

Corruption and Climate Change
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Humans versus Nature
Are humans part of nature or a hostile enemy?

Blind Data
The secrets behind compatibility science

March of the Machines
Is AI a threat to mankind?

The World in Our Hands
Rationality and climate change

The Puzzle of Progress
Has technology brought us the good life?

The Dark Side of Environmentalism
Are we just trying to repent of our consumerism?

Mind Machines
The future of AI

James Lovelock: Creativity in Science & Gaia Theory
The life of a lone scientist

What We Don't Know About CO2
The science of climate change

Can We Control AI?
Nigel Shadbolt | The right questions to ask on AI

Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain

Climate Change and Britain’s Future
Huhne predicts wars and violence

How to Thrive in a Digital Age

Creative Robots
How to make an inventive bot

The Habits of Nature
Do natural laws evolve over time?

Genes, Memes and Temes

The Myth of Scarcity
What is the future of sustainable farming?

The Fifth Crime

Designing Life

Nine Million Steps in Solitude
What it’s like to walk the Amazon

Staying Human in Cyberspace
Mindfulness in cyberspace

The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine

Global Overhaul
Rupert Read | Why going green matters

Future Storm
Where will lightning strike next?

Why Trolls Matter
The threat to 'polite' society

Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?

My Avatar, Myself
How to extend yourself into the virtual

Touching Cyberspace
Back to the physical

The psychology of AI
An interview with Isabel Millar

Extinction and Renewal
Are we facing the Sixth Great Mass Extinction?

AI, Google, and the fight for culture with Timothy Nguyen
Mathematics vs Art

Human justice and machine intelligence
An interview with Professor Joanna Bryson

The AI Apocalypse
Is AI as dangerous as we think?

Scientific freedom
An interview with Craig Callender

The danger and promise of the algorithm
How algorithms control our lives

The Anthropocene is bigger than climate change
Renewable energy is not enough

The AI illusion
What does the future really have in store?

AI is a mirror on humanity
Humanity's non-human reflection

In search of a cleaner world
Is green energy even possible?

The AI enigma
Is artificial intelligence a threat?

Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
Big data as a force for good

Profit, planet, and pretence
Can capitalism solve the climate crisis?

Science is broken
An interview with Helen Czerski

Mind over matter
The potential of mind-computer interface technology

The consciousness test
Is AI sentient?

The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data

Zanna Clay | In-depth Interview
On animal empathy, evolution, and beyond

How oceans shaped the world
Saving the heart of our planet