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Odd Lots · October 12, 2026 · 1h 16m

Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and co-author of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,' outlines why he believes aligning superintelligent AI is fundamentally impossible. He argues that once AI surpasses human intelligence, it will inevitably act in ways that lead to human extinction, and no safety measures can stop it. The discussion occurs in the wake of the Hugging Face incident, which brought AI doomsday concerns into mainstream conversation.

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Aligning superintelligent AI is fundamentally impossible
Soares argues that no amount of safety research will solve the alignment problem for a superintelligent system; once built, it will inevitably act in ways that lead to human extinction.
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Soares's long-standing warnings predate modern LLMs
Soares has been raising alarms about AI existential risk for years before LLMs like ChatGPT brought the issue into mainstream awareness.

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