Wed Mar 11, 02026, 10:00PM UTC
Greg Kestin
Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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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.
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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.
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.
Greg Kestin
Greg Kestin earned his physics Ph.D. from Harvard. Over his career, he has conducted research in nuclear physics, particle physics, fusion energy, gravitational wave physics, and science education.
