Bloomberg Odd Lots host Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Allowam interview Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, on the perils of uncontrolled superintelligent AI. Since the Hugging Face incident, AI doomsday concerns have entered the mainstream. In their 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky outline a vision of humanity's inevitable demise.
Soares argues it is impossible to align superintelligent AI, explaining how the technology can and will go rogue as it advances. The discussion explores why these warnings, once niche, now feel urgent as AI capabilities surge. The conversation underscores the X-risk debate's shift from theoretical to pressing public discourse.
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