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Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

Bloomberg Markets Monday 12 October 2026, 08:00 UTC By Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway 1 min read
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Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All What the X-Risk debate really is all about. Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter Since the Hugging Face incident, concerns over AI doomsday scenarios has entered the mainstream.

Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All What the X-Risk debate really is all about. Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter Since the Hugging Face incident, concerns over AI doomsday scenarios has entered the mainstream. But of course, some people have been warning about this for years, long before LLMs or ChatGPT. In their 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky spelled out their vision of humanity's inevitable demise once superintelligent AI is built. In this episode, we speak with Soares, who serves as president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, about why he believes it's impossible to "align" superintelligent AI, and how exactly the technology can and will go rogue as it gets more and more advanced.
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