Book · 2025 · Computers
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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I can't let an opportunity pass to shout out if anyone builds it, everyone dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. It's so good where they just lay out the a very straightforward example of how AI could just get out of control.
What they say about it
- Recommends reading the book“I really recommend the book to you”5
- Discusses book title“the first word in the title is if”2
- Quick and accessible read“it's very readable it's very accessible”2
The best things said about it
It's very readable, it's very accessible, and so if you have questions about, well, what is the scenario where this could happen and how should I be thinking about this, I really recommend the book to you.
Saagar Enjeti Breaking Points · Sep 2026 Well, um, people need to read the book. That's what I'll say. Um, I really encourage people. It's a it's actually it's a quick read. It doesn't take that long to get the point.
We spent all of chapter 3 saying, 'Hey, I know that the AIs don't seem that agentic right now. I know that they don't seem like they have their own goals right now, but like they're going to as they get smarter and here's all the reasons why.'.
Like, from the title of your book, again, if anyone builds it, everyone dies, like your percentage is 100.
Really focuses a lot on what is called AI alignment and he has just co-authored a new book titled that you can see there, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
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Why people recommend it
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares is a stark warning about the existential risks posed by the potential creation of superintelligent artificial intelligence. Saagar Enjeti, Tim Pool, Josh Clark, and Emily Jashinsky all recommended the book across various podcasts, praising it as a readable and accessible guide that outlines straightforward scenarios where advanced AI could spiral out of control. David Sacks and Steven Bartlett discussed the volume as well, noting its role in the broader conversation surrounding AI doom preaching and the specific predictions found in its chapters. Nate Soares appeared on Big Technology Podcast alongside host Alex Kantrowitz to debate whether catastrophe is a certainty if superintelligent systems are developed, defending the book's premise that smarter systems will naturally develop agentic goals. Together, these podcast segments highlight the book's significant impact on public discourse regarding the safety, regulation, and ultimate fate of humanity in an age of rapid technological acceleration.
Every mention
Emily Jashinsky Well, um, people need to read the book. That's what I'll say. Um, I really encourage people. It's a it's ac… 3
Discussed
“So if you want to actually dig into one of the use cases, we had on the, one of the co-authors of the book, if anyone builds it, everyone dies and they lay out.”
Discussed
“um really focuses a lot on what is called AI alignment and he has just co-authored a new book titled that you can see there if anyone builds it everyone dies why superhuman AI would kill us all.”
Recommended
“Well, um, people need to read the book. That's what I'll say. Um, I really encourage people. It's a it's actually it's a quick read. It doesn't take that long to get the point.”
Josh Clark I can't let an opportunity pass to shout out if anyone builds it, everyone dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Na… 1
Recommended
“I can't let an opportunity pass to shout out if anyone builds it, everyone dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. It's so good where they just lay out the a very straightforward example of how AI could just get out of control”
Saagar Enjeti the book is if anyone builds it everyone dies Nate is co-author of that book and it's very readable it's ve… 1
Recommended
“the book is if anyone builds it everyone dies Nate is co-author of that book and it's very readable it's very accessible and so if you have questions about well what is the scenario where this could happen and how should I be thinking about this I really recommend the book to you”
Tim Pool I recently did a great interview with uh uh uh on the Tim Pool show. I recommend everybody check out. It's… 1
Recommended
“I recently did a great interview with uh uh uh on the Tim Pool show. I recommend everybody check out. It's if if anybody builds it, we die. It's the book. Uh Nate Dr. is he doctor? I don't think so. uh Sorz uh is the guy I interviewed”
Nate Soares I mean, so A, the first title in the word in the in the book is if. Or sorry, the the A, the first word in… 4
Discussed
“We actually went over this in my book and you know, we we spent all of chapter 3 saying, "Hey, I know that the AIs don't seem that agentic right now. I know that they don't seem like they have their own goals right now, but like they're going to as they get smarter and here's all the reasons why."”
Discussed
“I mean, so A, the first title in the word in the in the book is if. Or sorry, the the A, the first word in the book title is if. That's very uncertain about what's going to happen here. If anyone builds it.”
Discussed
“You know, they they don't love book titles that are like, "If anyone builds it." There's like a like the by far the default outcome that is like very likely unless we have some sort of uh like miracle relative to the the the math and the science here”
Discussed
“we thought the most important point worthy of the title of my book was that it doesn't matter who's in charge here got got it”
Alex Kantrowitz Like, from the title of your book, again, if anyone builds it, everyone dies, like your percentage is 100.… 1
Discussed
“Like, from the title of your book, again, if anyone builds it, everyone dies, like your percentage is 100. Um No, absolutely not. The first word in the title is if.”
David Sacks Yud is like this the central figure who's been preaching AI doom for a long time, right? So he wrote that b… 1
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“Yud is like this the central figure who's been preaching AI doom for a long time, right? So he wrote that book if anyone builds it, we all die. Yes.”
Garrison Davis In this AI article that he wrote or published in January, he he recommended that people read Eleazar Yudkow… 1
Discussed
“In this AI article that he wrote or published in January, he he recommended that people read Eleazar Yudkowski's book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.”
Robert Evans Like Eliser's book that came out a year or two ago is called If We Build It, Everyone Dies or something lik… 1
Discussed
“Like Eliser's book that came out a year or two ago is called If We Build It, Everyone Dies or something like that.”
Steven Bartlett just to clarify what Nate said there in his book that I have here, if anyone builds it, everyone dies. He d… 1
Discussed
“just to clarify what Nate said there in his book that I have here, if anyone builds it, everyone dies. He does say in chapter 3, once AIs get sufficiently smart”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“He's also the author of this book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, uh which is a New York Times bestseller, and MIRI has been sounding the alarm the longest.”
Plugged
“And so what I would say is like if you find something that says if anyone builds it, everyone dies on it. Uh hopefully it would be attached to a whole book of the reasons that you could just like open it and then check those reasons”
Plugged
“So, I don't have a looking glass that tells me uh everything about AI. And and we sort of try in the book to say, "Here's what the looking glass can tell you, and here's what it can't."”
Passing
“The book is If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Nate Soares here with us today, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Nate, I appreciate your time.”
Passing
“he is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and also co-author of the great book If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies”
Plugged
“We in our book define super intelligence as an AI that is better than the best humans at every mental task.”
Plugged
“and then the thing I remind people about here is that the very first word in the title of my book is if I'm not here saying we are going to die I'm here saying if we race down this path, we die.”
Plugged
“This is in some sense the real reason behind the name of my book. uh if anyone builds it everyone dies is you know there's a lot of ways you can read that”
Passing
“Have you read this There's this book I haven't read it yet, but it's called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I don't think I'm going to be reading that one.”