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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies By Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares, Read By Rafe Beckley
Description: "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 devasta...