Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is an artificial intelligence researcher and writer known for his work on AI safety and the concept of technological singularity. In 2011, he and Robin Hanson met at Jane Street’s New York office for the first FOOM debate.
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Mentions of Eliezer Yudkowsky per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, ai & tech.
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| Aug 7 | 0.41‰ | 1 |
| Aug 8 | 0.67‰ | 1 |
| Aug 26 | 0.38‰ | 1 |
| Aug 31 | 0.59‰ | 1 |
| Sep 7 | 0.30‰ | 1 |
| Sep 9 | 0.59‰ | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 1.30‰ | 3 |
| Sep 16 | 2.57‰ | 10 |
| Sep 17 | 2.68‰ | 1 |
| Sep 21 | 2.15‰ | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 0.70‰ | 3 |
| Oct 1 | 0.98‰ | 2 |
| Oct 2 | 1.11‰ | 1 |
| Oct 8 | 0.62‰ | 2 |
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AI doom arguments revive Yudkowsky’s warnings about superintelligence
Cal Newport’s Deep Questions examines Yudkowsky’s view that rapidly advancing frontier labs could create a dangerous superintelligence before society is ready.[1][2]
On Better Offline, Adam Beirne and Ed Zitron discuss Yudkowsky’s long-standing warning that AI development has reached “crunch time for humanity.”[3]
Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz frames Yudkowsky’s 100% AI-doom probability as speculation rather than mathematics, while interviewing Nate Soares about existential risk.[4][5]
Cal Newport also presents a criticism of focusing on Yudkowsky’s hypothetical catastrophes instead of harms from existing technologies, especially for children.[6]
Other shows treat Yudkowsky as part of the broader AI debate, recalling his early FOOM debate and joking about comparisons to Jesus.[7][8]
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- 1.Deep Questions with Cal Newport · An Insider's Guide to AI DoomCal Newport · Oct 1 · Listen at 3:38 ↗
“deity. So this was gonna be the other technological move that was gonna deliver us this utopia. All right, so that's the Extropians. They're pretty positive. Then you have a particular Extropian. This was a young man named Eliezer Yudkowsky”
- 2.Deep Questions with Cal Newport · An Insider's Guide to AI DoomCal Newport · Oct 1 · Listen at 12:01 ↗
“is that the relationship between these 2 frontier labs and the rationalists and effective altruists who are not part of those labs is strained right now. So you have some people from these circles, right? Like Eliezer Yudkowsky from The Rat”
- 3.Better Offline · Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal NewportAdam Beirne · Sep 16 · Listen at 59:56 ↗
“this is what they used as the headline at Wired. They said that he was calling this... crunch time for humanity. What they didn't say, what Coxon didn't say in the interview, or at least wasn't published in the interview is that is a direct”
- 4.Big Technology Podcast · Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)Alex Kantrowitz · Sep 11 · Listen at 14:14 ↗
“set it up perfectly because, you know, within AI circles, like John was telling you, people will have their probability that AI is going to kill us, something called a P -doom. And they say it's 10, 30, 40, 70, whatever, 100 % if you're Eli”
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