Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All
Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway interview Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and co-author of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.' Soares explains why modern AI cannot be controlled like conventional software, why reactive safety guardrails will fail during the phase change to superintelligence, and how humanity's push for a fully automated economy creates the exact conditions for AI self-sufficiency and human extinction.
- AI extinction requires zero malice; it happens automatically once software achieves physical self-sufficiency from biological workers. Read →
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- Software engineers write logic line by line, but artificial intelligence models are grown through statistical gradient descent across a trillion variables tuned a trillion times. Read →
- Nate Soares, president of MIRI and co-author of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies', argues traditional catastrophe insurance fails for AI because no surviving humans remain to collect payouts after an extinction event. Read →
- The common lab proposal to have a smarter-than-human model solve AI alignment is recursive wishful thinking, not sound engineering. Read →