A.I. Safety Pioneer Eliezer Yudkowsky Warns Public: New Book Claims Superintelligent A.I. Development Will Lead to Human Extinction

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading.the shiftEliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.Eliezer Yudkowsky, center, at a conference in Berkeley, Calif., in 2023. He has spent years worrying about the safety of artificial intelligence.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York TimesSept. 12, 2025The first time I met Eliezer Yudkowsky, he said there was a 99.5 percen...