A critique of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s views on children’s right to life and AI risk
Émile P. Torres revisits Yudkowsky’s tentative claim about when children gain a “right to live” and challenges his AI-risk arguments.
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In an essay shared again in October 2026, Émile P. Torres criticizes Eliezer Yudkowsky’s views on children and AI risk. Torres highlights Yudkowsky’s suggestion that a child gains a “right to live” sometime after age 1 and before age 6; Yudkowsky said he needed to study child development further to refine that guess. Torres also cites Yudkowsky’s 2023 argument for striking a rogue data center to prevent dangerous AI, even at the risk of nuclear war.
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