Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky argue in their 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies that current approaches to artificial intelligence development pose existential risks to humanity. The authors suggest that the trajectory of the technology could lead to uncontrollable outcomes, drawing on long-standing warnings that have recently gained broader attention following incidents like the Hugging Face security breach. This perspective highlights a continued divide between industry acceleration and safety researchers regarding the potential for catastrophic failure in autonomous systems.