MIRI's Nate Soares on his controversial bestseller: will AI kill us all?
carnegieendowment · reddit · 2026-09-12
The Carnegie Endowment published a video interview with Nate Soares, director of MIRI, discussing the arguments behind his controversial bestseller on whether advanced AI could extinguish humanity — covering superintelligence risk, the alignment problem, and why he remains one of the most prominent doomsayer voices in AI safety.
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