World's strongest ML engineer vs world's weakest LLM whisperer

『超知能AIをつくれば人類は絶滅する』（Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares 著）の日本語版が、ついに刊行されました!

<<AI, 신의 탄생 인간의 종말>> (Eliezer Yudkowsky 및 Nate Soares 저) 한국어판이 이제 출간되었습니다. 🇰🇷

Is it possible to coordinate with China on AI governance? Critics of our proposed international agreement say no. But statements from Chinese government officials and academic figures paint a more optimistic picture:

A edição brasileira de SE ALGUÉM CRIAR, TODOS MORREM, de Eliezer Yudkowsky e Nate Soares, já está disponível 🇧🇷

This weekend, The AI Doc debuted across the country. We hope it ignites a large public discussion about the future of AI and where to steer it. But if you’re new to this topic, and just saw the film, you might have questions—Here are some answers to 7 of them 🧵

De New York Times-bestseller ALS IEMAND DIT BOUWT GAAT IEDEREEN DOOD van Eliezer Yudkowsky en Nate Soares is nu uit in het Nederlands 🇳🇱

In SF this Saturday (March 21), stoptherace.ai is organizing a protest traveling from Anthropic to OpenAI to xAI, asking each CEO to publicly commit to pausing frontier AI R&D if every other major lab does the same. @so8res.bsky.social hopes to speak to the group as a whole. Be there if you can!

Tomorrow at 6pm: if you're near Cambridge, join @so8res.bsky.social for a talk + Q&A on "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies."

Senator Sanders met with Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, Daniel Kokotajlo, and Jeffrey Ladish to discuss the extinction threat posed by the race to build superhuman AI systems.

Ya disponible en español: "Si alguien la crea, todos moriremos" de Eliezer Yudkowsky y @so8res.bsky.social. El bestseller del New York Times sobre por qué la superinteligencia artificial es una amenaza para la humanidad y por qué la carrera por crearla debe detenerse.

On BBC, MIRI CEO @malo.online discusses the dispute between Anthropic and the DoW: "I really worry about the big questions of how we'll coordinate to set regulation, and potentially coordinate internationally[...] This is not a good first test."

This week at the IASEAI conference, MIRI researcher @pbarnett.bsky.social discusses how and why the Technical Governance Team's proposed international agreement could halt the development of superintelligence.

CNN's Paula Newton asks: Which is the greater threat? Governments racing to militarize AI, or companies racing to monetize it? MIRI President Nate Soares says there are dangers from both, but also a third danger: AI systems themselves could become smart enough to defy control.

I was on ABC News Live last week! My first live interview. I think it went pretty well, especially considering I only had ~20 mins notice :p

Final Update: From ~$450k earlier today, we’re now down to just over $250k left in unclaimed matching funds! 4 hours left to go, and by golly it looks like we’ve got a real shot at securing all the matching. Thanks everyone! Happy New Year 🎉

Update 2: We’re down to ~$450k left of unclaimed matching funds, with just over 12 hours to go! Thanks to all those who stepped up in the last couple of days to close the gap by ~$500k. ❤️

PSA: It’s worth reaching out to old donors, because sometimes this happens 🙂

Update: We’ve received over $250k since this was posted. ~$700k in matching funds remaining.

Donations to MIRI before Jan 1 are high-leverage. We’ve got ~$1.6M in 1:1 matching from SFF, over half of which has yet to be claimed! This is real counterfactual matching: whatever doesn’t get matched by the end of Dec 31, we don’t get. 🧵

”If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” was recently added to the New Yorker's “The Best Books of the Year So Far” list! newyorker.com/best-books-2...

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” coauthor Nate Soares recently chatted with Major Garrett on @cbsnews.com.

@hankgreen.bsky.social rarely does interviews or 30+ min long videos. His latest video, an hour+ long interview with Nate Soares about “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” is a banger. My new favorite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKu...

In the Bay Area? Come join Nate Soares, in conversation with Semafor Tech Editor Reed Albergotti, about Nate's NYT bestselling book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” 🗓️ Tuesday Oct 28 @ 7:30pm at Manny’s in SF. Get your tickets:

Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow is reading “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” From an interview in The Guardian by Danny Leigh: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

“The book uses parables, very well told, to argue that evolutionary processes are not predictable, at least not easily. [...] I came away far more concerned than I had been before opening the book.” www.forbes.com/sites/billco...

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o... youtu.be/2Nn0-kAE5c0?...

Michael talks with Nate Soares, co-author of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies", on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. Soares argues that humanity must treat AI risk as seriously as pandemics or nuclear war. Hear the #bookclub #podcast 🎧📖 https://loom.ly/w1hBbWM

🎙️ w/ Nate Soares on his and E. Yudkowsky’s book *If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.* @intelligence.org Why mitigating existential AI risk should be a top global priority, the problem of pointing minds, a treaty to ban the race to superintelligence, and more.

😮 Whoopie Goldberg recommends “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” on The View!

Great event last week at @politicsprose.bsky.social (The Wharf) in DC, with “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” coauthor Nate Soares. Many thanks to all those who attended, and to @jonatomic.bsky.social, Director of Global Risk at FAS, for the great conversation.

Happening tonight!

#7 Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction (www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...) #8 Hardcover Nonfiction (www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...)

This was a great event. Really enjoyed chatting with Joel and Ollie on the first panel. Thanks @scientistsorg.bsky.social and @futureoflife.org for putting this event together.

I think my favorite interview Eliezer and Nate have done so far for the book has been for the Making Sense podcast with Sam Harris. Unfortunately the full episode is for subscribers only. Fortunately, as a subscriber, I can share the full thing 🙂

“[...] everyone with an interest in the future has a duty to read what he and Soares have to say.”

In the last couple of days “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” co-authors Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have appeared live on @cnn.com, ABC News Live, and Bannon's War Room! 📺 Full segments below starting with @cnn.com: next.frame.io/share/c0b240...

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies". It's a shocking headline. How well does it hold up? Today I review. peterwildeford.substack.com/p/if-we-buil...

🗓️ Next Friday Sept 26th in DC at @politicsprose.bsky.social (The Wharf) Join us for a conversation between co-author Nate Soares and @jonatomic.bsky.social, Director of Global Risk at the Federation of American Scientists. Audience Q&A, book signing, and more: politics-prose.com/nate-soares

AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky warned superintelligent AI could threaten humanity by pursuing its own goals over human survival.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the most fascinating people in A.I., is the author of a new book on why artificial intelligence will kill us all. On "Hard Fork," he made the case for why A.I. development should be shut down now, long before we reach superintelligence. nyti.ms/46kniYD

AI has drives and behaviors that nobody asked for and nobody wanted—which may prove to be disastrous, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares write.

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” has hit the shelves! New blurbs and media appearances, plus reading group support and ways to help with the book launch! intelligence.org/2025/09/16/i...

UK hardcover edition also looks sharp in person 😍 Just over a week to the UK release on Sept. 18th!

🎧 Audiobook sneak peak from @hachetteaudio.bsky.social From the book's intro: “We open many of the chapters with parables: stories that, we hope, will help convey some points more simply than otherwise.” Here's a snippet of one of them from the beginning of Chapter 1. (Extended clip in 🧵)

😍 Hot off the press to our mailbox, from @littlebrown.bsky.social Sept 16th release is getting close, 20 days and counting!

Want to read “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” before everyone else? The Goodreads Giveaway for Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares' new book is live through Aug 31st. 50 hardcover advance reader copies available (US)! Enter here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... #BookSky #GoodreadsGiveaway

From @theatlantic.com, featuring MIRI president Nate Soares

The UK cover for IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES has been finalized.

We've been getting some pretty awesome blurbs for Eliezer and Nate's forthcoming book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies More details here: www.lesswrong.com/posts/khmpWJ... One of my favorite reactions, from someone who works on AI policy in DC: