>Eliezer Yudkowsky has gone so far as to say that it might be ok to kill most of humanity (excepting a "viable reproduction population") to stop AI
That doesn't sound like a non-misleading summary of anything he would say. Do you have a quote or a link?
Apparently he deleted the tweet but there are screenshots and he apologized.
https://betweendrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/survivo...
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1642229374656348161