"In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe."
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American AI safety researcher and writer. He co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and is known for work on rationality and AI alignment. He has published essays and technical writing on long-term AI risk.