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Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Auteur(s): Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
Narrateur(s): Rafe Beckley
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 "May prove to be the most important book of our time.”—Tim Urban, Wait But Why

The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.

In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next.

For decades, two signatories of that letter—Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares—have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us—and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn’t even be close.

How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive.

The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies.

“The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read.”—Yishan Wong, Former CEO of Reddit Histoire et culture Informatique Le meilleur de 2025 Politique Politiques publiques Intelligence artificielle Technologie
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This is the most important, monumental book since Silent Spring, Future Shock, Guns Germs & Steel, Required reading by every thinking person who wishes humanity and their children to survive runaway artificial intelligence and robotics. Well written, engaging, page turning narrative of the greatest existential threat in human history.

Tipping Point: The Canary in the Coal Mine

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One of the most important books that I recommend everyone should read/listen. The authors break down the situation we currently face. I also found the narration enjoyable as authors explain the dangers of AI and what is currently happening with respect to its development and the dangers that lie ahead. Love also the many parables and stories that really highlight the authors main points.

A MUST LISTEN

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This is very important and well written book. A.i is scary but people have not woken up yet

This is a very important and well written book

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The whole book is written in a way that anyone can see and understand the potential danger and fate of humans, and it definitely sobered me up to the possibility of humans not being at the top of the food chain for much longer if things don’t change

Absolutely terrifying

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I am so grateful this book exists. Excellent prose and excellent narration! There is a guilty pleasure in enjoying how neat the prose is while parsing the sober and intense message. Saying that I devoured it would be an understatement (though I had to take a break after the scenario).

The book gives the basic case for why we’d expect that building ever more powerful artificial intelligences would eventually amount to humanity committing suicide (unless the world stops). I found it accessible and concrete, obviously sincere and careful as well as personal, and exceptionally respectful of my time and attention. This is a book I will definitely pass around (gonna need a paper copy too!) and ask my friends to read. It is a call to rise to the occasion which is not obscured by technical jargon and isn’t afraid to come out and say what many experts think: “if anyone builds it, everyone dies”. This is the call to action that the general public needs. Let’s read, circulate, and face together what is likely the greatest challenge ever faced by humanity. Since the solution requires many people to pay attention, to intellectually engage, and to viscerally get it, I am so glad that there is a book out there that makes the case this well.

If enough people read it, maybe we’ll get our civilizational act together :)


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Mild spoilers:

Regarding the scenario, I don’t want to spoil it, but I definitely felt outrage and a rejection of depicted dehumanization (while finding it plausible). I think many people who say they are excited about the ever increasing capabilities of AI systems fail to visualize what it would mean to live in a world where these forces simply kept going. I am grateful that the book is at least letting me process one actual concrete case of how things might turn out.

There were many “aha!” moments during this book. Perhaps the biggest one (certainly the least expected) is the discussion of nuclear reactors.

Lots of emotions

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