Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Eliezer Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is a self-proclaimed artificial intelligence researcher, a "Research Fellow" and board member of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and a dedicated Singularitarian. The mission statement of the Institute reads as follows:
- SIAI was founded for the pursuit of ethically enhanced cognition by creating Friendly AI. We believe the ethical and significant enhancement of cognition will help solve contemporary problems – disease and illness, poverty and hunger – more readily than other philanthropic pursuits.