Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics. He is the co-founder of and a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. He is known for coining the term "friendly artificial intelligence," popularizing ideas related to AI safety and alignment, and founding the rationality community blog LessWrong. He is also the author of the Harry Potter fanfiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and co-author of the New York Times Best Seller If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.