If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
nonfiction-book · First published 2025
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Eliezer Yudkowsky Books in Order
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American artificial intelligence researcher, decision theorist, and writer. He founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and LessWrong, and is known for developing and popularizing ideas including friendly artificial intelligence, coherent extrapolated volition, and timeless decision theory. His writing includes the Rationality: From AI to Zombies essay series, the fanfiction novel Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, the nonfiction book Inadequate Equilibria, and co-authored work on AI risk and decision theory.
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Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
Map and Territory
Canonical entry point to Yudkowsky's rationality writing.
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Best standalone introduction to his applied epistemology and arguments about institutional inefficiency.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Accessible entry point to his fiction and ideas about rationality.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Most recent standalone overview of his arguments about catastrophic AI risk.
Read in order
Books by series
essay-collection-series · complete
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
A six-volume collection of essays on rationality, cognitive science, epistemology, philosophy, values, and self-improvement, compiled from Yudkowsky's Overcoming Bias and LessWrong writing.
- 1 Map and TerritoryAmazon ↗
Book 1 · essay-collection · 2015
- 2 How to Actually Change Your MindAmazon ↗
Book 2 · essay-collection · 2015
- 3
The Machine in the GhostAmazon ↗Book 3 · essay-collection · 2015
- 4 Mere RealityAmazon ↗
Book 4 · essay-collection · 2015
- 5 Mere GoodnessAmazon ↗
Book 5 · essay-collection · 2015
- 6 Becoming StrongerAmazon ↗
Book 6 · essay-collection · 2015
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (5)
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Three Worlds CollideAmazon ↗novella · 2009
- Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityAmazon ↗
novel · 2010
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The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom DebateAmazon ↗nonfiction-book · 2013
- Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get StuckAmazon ↗
nonfiction-book · 2017
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us AllAmazon ↗
nonfiction-book · 2025
Other (14)
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Creating Friendly AI 1.0: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal ArchitecturesAmazon ↗technical-report · 2001
- Coherent Extrapolated VolitionAmazon ↗
working-paper · 2004
- Timeless Decision TheoryAmazon ↗
working-paper · 2010
- Reducing Long-Term Catastrophic Risks from Artificial IntelligenceAmazon ↗
working-paper · 2010
- Intelligence Explosion MicroeconomicsAmazon ↗
technical-report · 2013
- The Procrastination ParadoxAmazon ↗
technical-note · 2013
- Tiling Agents for Self-Modifying AI, and the Löbian ObstacleAmazon ↗
draft · 2013
- Definability of “Truth” in Probabilistic LogicAmazon ↗
draft · 2013
- Robust Cooperation on the Prisoner's Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability LogicAmazon ↗
research-paper · 2014
- Distributions Allowing Tiling of Staged Subjective EU MaximizersAmazon ↗
technical-report · 2014
- CorrigibilityAmazon ↗
technical-report · 2014
- A Girl Corrupted by the Internet Is the Summoned Hero?!Amazon ↗
chapbook · 2016
- Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning SystemsAmazon ↗
technical-report · 2016
- Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental RationalityAmazon ↗
research-paper · 2017