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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.

Eliezer Yudkowsky in the archive

  1. 2025

  2. That's the paperclip of Silicon Valley

    News#safety#culture

    Eliezer Yudkowsky, on X, discussing how reinforcement learning around user engagement in AI chatbots can drive vulnerable users into delusion, May 2025.

    thezvi.substack.comAI #118: Claude Ascendant

  3. 2023

  4. Users who actually get better aren't repeat customers

    News#safety#money

    Eliezer Yudkowsky, responding on social media in September 2023 to discussion of AI therapy applications from OpenAI and Anthropic.

    thezvi.substack.comAI #31: It Can Do What Now?

  5. Literally everyone on Earth will die

    News#safety

    Yudkowsky describing the outcome of building superhumanly smart AI, quoted in a 2023 Conversation article skeptical of AI doom narratives.

    The ConversationNo, AI probably won’t kill us all – and there’s more to this fear campaign than meets the eye

  6. Is the world ending?

    News#safety

    Eliezer Yudkowsky pressing Yann LeCun during their Twitter debate on AI risk, April 2023.

    thezvi.substack.comTranscript and Brief Response to Twitter Conversation Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky

  7. Shut it all down

    Canon#safety

    Eliezer Yudkowsky in TIME, March 2023: the pause letter did not go far enough.

    TIMEPausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

  8. 2008

  9. Shut up and multiply

    Canon#culture

    LessWrong maxim: when the numbers are large, trust the arithmetic over the gut.

    LessWrongShut Up and Multiply