Eliezer Yudkowsky’s arguments on common claims about AI, 1996–2026

Which located texts by Eliezer Yudkowsky, from 1996 to 2026, state, contest or bear on 29 claims often made about advanced AI? For each claim, which of his located texts is the earliest to contest it, and which earlier views of his did later texts of his contest?

Each row is one text’s stance on one proposition, as a stored record states it: articulates, contests or bears on. A stance belongs to the text, not to its author. Rows are in date order, which records no influence between texts. Authors appear as the texts’ own bylines print them, pseudonyms included. “Earliest located” marks only a text the collection’s records name as the earliest the searches found.

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