--- title: "Eliezer Yudkowsky: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-founder. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-eliezer-yudkowsky source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Eliezer Yudkowsky AI, Eliezer Yudkowsky quotes, Eliezer Yudkowsky statements, Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI, what Eliezer Yudkowsky said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-founder. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-eliezer-yudkowsky The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Eliezer Yudkowsky [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-eliezer-yudkowsky) Co-founder · Machine Intelligence Research Institute ## Why now No headline this week names Eliezer Yudkowsky. ## What they said 5 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Eliezer Yudkowsky, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Sep 16, 2025 In the record "If anyone builds it, everyone dies." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [hachettebookgroup.com](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/9780316595667/) - Sep 15, 2025 In the record "Gave a two and a half hour interview to the Doom Debates podcast discussing his AI risk arguments and his forthcoming book." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [substack.com](https://lironshapira.substack.com/p/eliezer-yudkowsky-interview) - Feb 18, 2024 In the record "I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years. Could be two years, could be 10." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [futurism.com](https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-destroy-humankind-yudkowsky) - Mar 30, 2023 In the record "Appeared on the Lex Fridman podcast for an episode titled Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization." [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [lexfridman.com](https://lexfridman.com/eliezer-yudkowsky/) - Mar 29, 2023 In the record "Shut it all down." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [TIME](https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Eliezer%20Yudkowsky#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Eliezer Yudkowsky ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Mar 29, 2023 ["Shut it all down."](https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/) - Sep 15, 2025 [Gave a two and a half hour interview to the Doom Debates podcast discussing his AI risk arguments and his forthcoming book.](https://lironshapira.substack.com/p/eliezer-yudkowsky-interview) - Sep 16, 2025 ["If anyone builds it, everyone dies."](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies/9780316595667/) - Mar 30, 2023 [Appeared on the Lex Fridman podcast for an episode titled Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization.](https://lexfridman.com/eliezer-yudkowsky/) - Feb 18, 2024 ["I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years. Could be two years, could be 10."](https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-destroy-humankind-yudkowsky) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Eliezer Yudkowsky. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Eliezer Yudkowsky with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.