“I mean, Nate Sorias, Eliezer Yukowski, who wrote If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, they tried and they determined based on their own analysis that it seems extremely difficult, possible, but extremely difficult.”
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
Mentioned 3 times on 1 show. Most recently heard 08/10/2026.
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“That's why we'll be safe. And in chapter three of my book, we go over how AI is going to become agentic, how it's going to become tenacious, tenacious, how it's going to become dogged. And, uh, that's what we might call an advanced scientific prediction that has paid off in the hugging face attack.”
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“Just to clarify what Nate said in his book that I have here: if anyone builds it, everyone dies. He does say in chapter three: once AIs get sufficiently smart, they'll start acting like they have preferences, like they want things.”
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