Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American specialist in artificial intelligence who researches the problems of the technological singularity and advocates the creation of friendly artificial intelligence .
Yudkowski explores AI designs that are capable of self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-improvement, as well as AI architectures that possess a stable and positive motivation structure.
In addition to his research work, Yudkovsky is known for his explanations of complex models in non-academic language accessible to a wide range of readers.