I've read the wikipidea page of MIRI, and it does not mention any achievements; just that it was founded "with the purpose of accelerating the development of artificial intelligence". Did they advance the field of AI alignment at all? Being concerned with a problem does not make one an expert.

For the rest, is he just an AI influencer? One that predated his topic of interest, but still just an influencer?

Also, here is a list of his papers and citations.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Eliezer-Yudkowsky/254...