I wouldn't trust Yudkowski to build an MLP classifier from scratch. Hell, I wouldn't trust him solving the Titanic task on Kaggle with SciKit learn.

He's a captivating speaker, but similar to some other popular cultural-scientific faces (e.g. Jordan Peterson) I feel like he is 100% form, 0% substance (or the substance that is valuable, is not original, but common knowledge repackaged).

If you don't tune in to people without a Bachelor's degree giving health advice, I don't know why you should care of Yudkowski's view of AI.