Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI
6 quotes from Eliezer Yudkowsky on the wall, 2008 to 2025, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include thezvi.substack.com, The Conversation, TIME. Topics: safety, culture, money. Open on the wall.
- 2025
That's the paperclip of Silicon Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky, on X, discussing how reinforcement learning around user engagement in AI chatbots can drive vulnerable users into delusion, May 2025.
- 2023
Users who actually get better aren't repeat customers
Eliezer Yudkowsky, responding on social media in September 2023 to discussion of AI therapy applications from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Literally everyone on Earth will die
Yudkowsky describing the outcome of building superhumanly smart AI, quoted in a 2023 Conversation article skeptical of AI doom narratives.
No, AI probably won’t kill us all – and there’s more to this fear campaign than meets the eye
Eliezer Yudkowsky pressing Yann LeCun during their Twitter debate on AI risk, April 2023.
Transcript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky in TIME, March 2023: the pause letter did not go far enough.
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
- 2008
LessWrong maxim: when the numbers are large, trust the arithmetic over the gut.