Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American AI researcher and writer best known for his work on artificial general intelligence safety, rationality, and founding the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eliezer Yudkowsky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7272323 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eliezer Yudkowsky Context triple: [Overcoming Bias, hasContributor, Eliezer Yudkowsky]
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A.
Yuval Tassa
Yuval Tassa is a researcher in reinforcement learning and control who co-authored the work that introduced the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm.
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B.
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his influential work on existential risk, superintelligence, and the future of humanity.
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C.
Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an American economist and futurist known for his work on prediction markets, social science, and thought-provoking analyses of topics like the Fermi paradox and future technologies.
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D.
Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the legal drama series "Goliath."
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E.
Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell is a leading artificial intelligence researcher and co-author of the seminal textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach," known for his influential work on AI theory, ethics, and safety.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eliezer Yudkowsky Target entity description: Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American AI researcher and writer best known for his work on artificial general intelligence safety, rationality, and founding the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).
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A.
Yuval Tassa
Yuval Tassa is a researcher in reinforcement learning and control who co-authored the work that introduced the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm.
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B.
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his influential work on existential risk, superintelligence, and the future of humanity.
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C.
Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is an American economist and futurist known for his work on prediction markets, social science, and thought-provoking analyses of topics like the Fermi paradox and future technologies.
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D.
Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the legal drama series "Goliath."
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E.
Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell is a leading artificial intelligence researcher and co-author of the seminal textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach," known for his influential work on AI theory, ethics, and safety.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence researcher
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blogger ⓘ human ⓘ science fiction author ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
LessWrong
NERFINISHED
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Overcoming Bias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-09-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | homeschooled ⓘ |
| employer | Machine Intelligence Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yudkowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial general intelligence safety
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artificial intelligence ⓘ decision theory ⓘ ethics of artificial intelligence ⓘ rationality ⓘ |
| founded | Machine Intelligence Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fan fiction
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non-fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Eliezer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
AI alignment
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Coherent Extrapolated Volition NERFINISHED ⓘ Friendly AI NERFINISHED ⓘ orthogonality thesis (AI goals vs intelligence) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
Bayesian reasoning
NERFINISHED
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cognitive biases ⓘ decision theory in AI alignment ⓘ existential risk from AI ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Friendly AI concept
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality NERFINISHED ⓘ LessWrong community NERFINISHED ⓘ artificial general intelligence safety ⓘ rationality writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
effective altruism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rationalist community ⓘ |
| name | Eliezer Yudkowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Coherent Extrapolated Volition
NERFINISHED
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Creating Friendly AI NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality NERFINISHED ⓘ Inadequate Equilibria NERFINISHED ⓘ Rationality: From AI to Zombies NERFINISHED ⓘ Sequences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
co-founder of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
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research fellow at Machine Intelligence Research Institute ⓘ |
| residence | Berkeley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.lesswrong.com ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Machine Intelligence Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Eliezer Yudkowsky Description of subject: Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American AI researcher and writer best known for his work on artificial general intelligence safety, rationality, and founding the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Overcoming Bias