# Eliezer Yudkowsky

Record: actor-yudkowsky · Type: actor · Edition: 0.19.0 · Evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15

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Dataset pointer: `/map/entities/0`. Reviewed: 2026-09-15.

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## Position context

Status: placed. Kind: person. Evidence clarity: high. Basis: primary. Implementation: public-advocacy.

Sources used: First-hand material.

Editorial coordinates: x=-87, y=87; x range [-100, -72]; y range [72, 100]. These are layout units, not probabilities.

## /scope

Superintelligence and the frontier leading to it.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-c863eb4481f44246f08ae770. Annotation: editorial.

[yudkowsky-book](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/) · [miri-position](https://intelligence.org/)

## /caveat

This is his advocated position, not this project's prediction.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-7186e669fd92b7b9ba3a39d1. Annotation: editorial.

[yudkowsky-book](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/) · [miri-position](https://intelligence.org/)

## /evidence/0/note

Argues against proceeding to superintelligence with present methods.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-c546fe044edf4ba04b75b256. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: pace · Evidence role: unspecified.

[yudkowsky-book](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/)

## /evidence/1/note

Frames superhuman AI as an extinction threat.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-521ebf61904851c0ed123320. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: concern · Evidence role: unspecified.

[yudkowsky-book](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/)

## /evidence/2/note

MIRI separately advocates an enforced international ASI moratorium.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-c3e2bc4ce4b13dc7bdf7f40e. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: context · Evidence role: unspecified.

[miri-position](https://intelligence.org/)

## /profile/summary

Argues against building superintelligence with present methods.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-d3d975f0c6400f4267a85c3a. Annotation: synthesis.

[yudkowsky-book](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/)

## /profile/sections/0/text

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.

Claim: claim-actor-yudkowsky-49417a21b35b468db03a99b0. Annotation: synthesis.

[yudkowsky-book](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/)

## Source provenance

### yudkowsky-book

[Yudkowsky and Soares Announce Major New Book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies](https://intelligence.org/2025/05/15/yudkowsky-and-soares-announce-major-new-book-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/)

Machine Intelligence Research Institute · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2025-05-15 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

What we read (publisher-page): The affiliated announcement of the authors' argument, not the book itself.

A publisher/affiliated announcement of the authors' argument, not an empirical finding that extinction is certain.

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.

### miri-position

[Our view](https://intelligence.org/)

Machine Intelligence Research Institute · First-hand source (primary) · Published: undated · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Undated live institutional position checked on the review date. Used as context, not as a substitute for individual authorship.

No archive check recorded.