Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for friendly artificial intelligence. He is a Research Fellow and co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research non-profit based in Berkeley, California, and founder of discussion website Lesswrong.
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Quotations
Yudkowsky has been attributed[1] as the author of the “Moore's Law of Mad Scientists” :
“The minimum IQ required to destroy the world drops by one point every 18 months.”