Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Research Fellow; Co-founder, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY is a research fellow of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, which he co-founded in 2001. He is mainly concerned with the obstacles and importance of developing a Friendly AI, such as a reflective decision theory that would lay a foundation for describing fully recursive self modifying agents that retain stable preferences while rewriting their source code.