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Yudkowsky and Soares publish If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
A mainstream book arguing that building superhuman AI would end humanity
Key facts
- Date
- 16 Sep 2025
- Era
- The agentic age
- Interest
- Books
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- Full title
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
- Authors
- Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, 272 pages
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, long-time researchers in AI alignment (the work of making AI systems do what people intend), argue that building superhuman AI with current methods would lead to human extinction. The book walks through their reasoning, sets out one possible extinction scenario and says what it would take to avoid it. Little, Brown published it on 16 September 2025.
Sources
- Hachette Book Group, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, 2025-09-16