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Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2026-09-17

Books mentioned on The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced Models

1 book · With Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman Yampolskiy · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Ed Zitron, Roman Yampolskiy, Nate Soares and Andrew McAfee discuss the risk of AI.

Steven Bartlett discussed If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

    Eliezer Yudkowsky · at 35:53

    If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares is an accessible exploration of the existential risks and catastrophic scenarios associated with the rapid development of superintelligent artificial intelligence.

    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”
    Steven Bartlett The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? … 2026-09-17
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Second Machine Age
“Eric and I wrote The Second Machine Age in 2014. And at that time, I thought that a lot of white collar workers”
Andrew McAfee The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? … 2026-09-17 Listen at 1:01:24
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