Eliezer Yudkowsky
Co-Founder and Research Fellow, SIAI
Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the world's foremost researchers on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He created the Friendly AI approach to AGI, which emphasizes the importance of the structure of an ethical optimization process and its supergoal, in contrast to the common trend of seeking the right fixed enumeration of ethical rules a moral agent should follow.
In 2001, he published the first technical analysis of motivationally stable goal systems, with his book-length Creating Friendly AI: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures. In 2002, he wrote "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence," a paper on the evolutionary psychology of human general intelligence, published in the edited volume Artificial General Intelligence (Springer, 2006). He has two papers forthcoming in the edited volume Global Catastrophic Risks (Oxford, 2007), Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks and Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk.
In 2006, he presented at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University, organized by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His presentation was called "The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion." In his Transvision 2007 talk on the power of intelligence, called "Mind Is All That Matters: Reasons to Focus on Cognitive Technologies" he argues that the human brain more than any other development in history has changed the face of the earth, and logically one can expect that improved cognitive technologies will likely have the same dramatic impact on human conception and control over the physical universe.
Eliezer Yudkowsky regularly contributed to the website Overcoming Bias, an online forum organized by the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute to address the issue of cognitive biases. He also contributes entries to the Singularity Institute Blog. Recently he presented two talks at the 2007 Singularity Summit in San Francisco. They were entitled "Introducing the Singularity: Three Major Schools of Thought" and "The Challenge of Friendly AI." He recently spoke at the Foresight Vision Weekend on heuristics, biases, and philanthropy: what cognitive science has to say about inefficient altruism.
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Heuristics, Biases & Rationality
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Bloggingheads.tv
Frontiers of Gerontology
Bloggingheads.tv
Science Saturday: Singularity Edition
SIAI:
Interview series
2007 Singularity Summit,
Introducing the "Singularity": Three Major Schools of Thought
2007 Singularity Summit,
The Challenge of Friendly AI
Singularity Summit at Stanford,
The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion
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Global Catastrophic Risks 2008,
Cognitive Biases in the Assessment of Risk
Artificial Intelligence and Society,
Artificial Intelligence and Society
Singularity Summit 2007,
The Challenge of Friendly AI
Singularity Summit 2007,
Introducing the Singularity: Three Major Schools of Thought
Transvision 2007, "
Mind Is All That Matters: Reasons to Focus on Cognitive Technologies"
SIAI Interview Series, "
The Space of Possible Minds"
SIAI Informal Meeting, "
If the Future Contains Minds That Are Smarter Than Us"
AGIRI's First AGI Workshop, "
AI as a Precise Art"
Singularity Summit at Stanford, "
The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion"
Bay Area Future Salon, "
World's Most Important Math Problem"
2005 Terasem Foundation conference, "
Creating a New Intelligent Species"
2003 Foresight Gathering, "
The Foundations of Order"
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2008 Artificial Intelligence and Society, "
The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion"
Transvision 2007, "
Mind Is All That Matters: Reasons to Focus on Cognitive Technologies"
SIAI Interview Series, "
The Space of Possible Minds"
08.24.07
ZD Net podcast hosted by Dan Farber
2007 Singularity Summit, "
Introducing the 'Singularity': Three Major Schools of Thought"
2007 Singularity Summit, "
The Challenge of Friendly AI"
Singularity Summit at Stanford, "
The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion"
Transvision 2003, "
Posthumanity: A Nice Place To Live?"