New Scientist pans 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies': the AI doom argument is fatally flawed
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-09
A New Scientist review takes on MIRI's Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares and their book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, arguing its case is superficially appealing but fatally flawed.
- Yudkowsky has preached AI doom for 25 years; the ChatGPT era pushed his ideas mainstream, echoed by tech CEOs and politicians
- The book succeeds as communication, condensing long blog posts into a highly readable mass-market argument, blurbed by prominent figures
- The reviewer rejects the central claim that building AGI means human extinction
- The post cites the December 2024 AI researcher survey shared by lead author Katja Grace as supporting material
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