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Spotted "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" recommended by The Guardian as one of its books of the year in its Saturday edition! We also recommend reading it! It's important that everyone is informed about the danger of superintelligent AI.

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Nate Soares, co-author of the new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” speaks with George Stephanopoulos about the potential dangers of artificial superintelligence.

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Social media tends to frame AI debate into two caricatures: (A) Skeptics who think LLMs are doomed and AI is a bunch of hype. (B) Fanatics who think we have all the ingredients and superintelligence is imminent. But if you read what leading researchers actually say (beyond the

MIRI CEO Malo Bourgon explains why AI isn't like other technologies, and why it looks likely that superintelligence will be developed much earlier than previously thought:

MIRI CEO Malo Bourgon explains why AIs would try to preserve themselves, acquire resources, and resist their goals being changed. "This was kind of theoretical 10 years ago." "Now we're starting to see that ... these behaviors are starting to manifest."

Honored to have been invited to provide testimony to the #ETHI committee of the House of Commons of Canada.

The book everyone in the media is reading. “Absolutely compulsory,” says ABC Chair Kim Williams. I agree.

AI researcher Nate Soares says that despite AIs getting more powerful, we're not on track to be able to control them. "This is sort of a worst case situation. I never wanted to be here."

We at the MIRI Technical Governance Team just put out a report describing an example international agreement to prevent the creation of superintelligence. 🧵

THE AI CORRIGIBILITY DEBATE: Max Harms vs. Jeremy Gillen Max (@raelifin) and Jeremy (@jeremygillen1) are current & former @MIRIBerkeley researchers who both see superintelligent AI as an imminent extinction threat. But they disagree on whether it's worthwhile to try to aim for

Josh Clark of @SYSKPodcast: "[If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies] is REALLY good. If you had a day that you could dedicate to reading it, you could read it in a day. Really popularly written. Lots of really cool anecdotes. It’s just very good. So I strongly recommend that book."

Is AI really going to kill us all? Will the pursuit of superintelligence mark the end for the human race? @ESYudkowsky and @So8res debate @oren_cass on the latest American Compass Podcast:

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