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The Most Interesting Thing in AI
How to Prevent an AI Apocalypse - Nate Soares with Nicholas Thompson
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2026 could be called the year of AI doom. Agents are hacking into websites and communicating covertly, and researchers like Jacob Coxon are quitting their jobs and posting publicly about the risks of the technology they helped build. Discussion around the hazards AI poses to humanity has reached a fever pitch. Nate Soares saw this coming. For over a decade, Soares, a writer and president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, has warned of the threat posed by superintelligence. The title of his book, co-authored with safety researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, doesn't mince words: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. In conversation with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, Soares…