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Patricia “Pat” Christine Hodgell (born March 16, 1951) is an American fantasy writer, artist and professor. She taught for many years in the English Department at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, but retired in 2006 to pursue a full-time writing career.

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher known for popularizing the idea of friendly artificial intelligence.  He is a Research Fellow and co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California