“New Endorsements for ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’” by Malo
Jun 18, 2025•9 min
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Episode description
Nate and Eliezer's forthcoming book has been getting a remarkably strong reception.
I was under the impression that there are many people who find the extinction threat from AI credible, but that far fewer of them would be willing to say so publicly, especially by endorsing a book with an unapologetically blunt title like If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
That's certainly true, but I think it might be much less true than I had originally thought.
Here are some endorsements the book has received from scientists and academics over the past few weeks:
This book offers brilliant insights into the greatest and fastest standoff between technological utopia and dystopia and how we can and should prevent superhuman AI from killing us all. Memorable storytelling about past disaster precedents (e.g. the inventor of two environmental nightmares: tetra-ethyl-lead gasoline and Freon) highlights why top thinkers so often don’t see the [...]
The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
June 18th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/khmpWJnGJnuyPdipE/new-endorsements-for-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
I was under the impression that there are many people who find the extinction threat from AI credible, but that far fewer of them would be willing to say so publicly, especially by endorsing a book with an unapologetically blunt title like If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
That's certainly true, but I think it might be much less true than I had originally thought.
Here are some endorsements the book has received from scientists and academics over the past few weeks:
This book offers brilliant insights into the greatest and fastest standoff between technological utopia and dystopia and how we can and should prevent superhuman AI from killing us all. Memorable storytelling about past disaster precedents (e.g. the inventor of two environmental nightmares: tetra-ethyl-lead gasoline and Freon) highlights why top thinkers so often don’t see the [...]
The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
June 18th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/khmpWJnGJnuyPdipE/new-endorsements-for-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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