Eliezer Yudkowsky

Person · Reviewed 2026-09-15

Sources used: First-hand material.

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Position, range and evidence details

Preferred pace: -87; stated catastrophic-risk concern: 87. These are layout units, not percentages or rankings.

Pace range: -100 to -72; concern range: 72 to 100. Ranges show alternative editorial interpretations, not statistical confidence intervals.

Evidence clarity: high. Basis: primary. Implementation: public-advocacy.

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Prepared with AI assistance. Not independently fact-checked. Original sources and qualifications are below.

What this position covers

Superintelligence and the frontier leading to it. [1] [2]

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Editorial interpretation or qualification. Claim ID: claim-actor-yudkowsky-c863eb4481f44246f08ae770. Edition 0.19.0.

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What to keep in mind

This is his advocated position, not this project's prediction. [1] [2]

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Editorial interpretation or qualification. Claim ID: claim-actor-yudkowsky-7186e669fd92b7b9ba3a39d1. Edition 0.19.0.

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What they say about the pace of AI

Argues against proceeding to superintelligence with present methods. [1]

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Summary attributed to the linked source. Claim ID: claim-actor-yudkowsky-c546fe044edf4ba04b75b256. Edition 0.19.0.

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What they say about catastrophic risk

Frames superhuman AI as an extinction threat. [1]

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Summary attributed to the linked source. Claim ID: claim-actor-yudkowsky-521ebf61904851c0ed123320. Edition 0.19.0.

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Context and qualifications

MIRI separately advocates an enforced international ASI moratorium. [2]

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The wider picture

Argues against building superintelligence with present methods. [1]

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The claim being mapped

The book announcement presents an argument that superhuman AI would threaten humanity. The map records that argument; it does not present the outcome as established. [1]

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Sources and what we read

1. Yudkowsky and Soares Announce Major New Book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Machine Intelligence Research Institute · First-hand source · Published 2025-05-15 · Material last read 2026-09-15
What we read: The affiliated announcement of the authors' argument, not the book itself.
No archived copy verified · Archive check 2026-09-15
The Wayback availability lookup returned HTTP 429 (rate limited). No capture was verified; this does not show that no archived copy exists.
A publisher/affiliated announcement of the authors' argument, not an empirical finding that extinction is certain.
Source ID: yudkowsky-book
2. Our view
Machine Intelligence Research Institute · First-hand source · Published date unavailable · Material last read 2026-09-15
Read scope is described in the source note.
No archive check recorded.
Undated live institutional position checked on the review date. Used as context, not as a substitute for individual authorship.
Source ID: miri-position

Edition and machine-readable evidence

Content version 0.19.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-15; this does not mean every source was read on that day.

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