AGI Strategies

person

Andrew Yao

Andrew Yao

Tsinghua professor; Turing Award winner; Chinese AI institutional figure

Tsinghua professor and 2000 Turing Award winner. Founded the Yao Class at Tsinghua, which has produced many of China's leading AI researchers.

current Dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University
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Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Foundational figure in Chinese theoretical computer science. Has supported Chinese-Western AI safety dialogues including IDAIS.

AI safety is a shared technical problem; international cooperation is essential.
articleInternational Dialogues on AI Safety· IDAIS· 2024· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Andrew Yao's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aaron Courville

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    Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author

  • Adam Jermyn

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    Anthropic; previously astrophysics

  • Adam Kalai

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    Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety

  • Agnes Callard

    Agnes Callard

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    University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist

  • Ajeya Cotra

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    Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

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    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.