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Every book Nate Soares recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Nate Soares appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books recommended by Nate Soares
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
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“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."”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares | Big Technology Podcast | 2026-09-16 | 3 |
| 9/14/26: Anthropic Calls To Slow Pace of AI, Nate Soares AI Regulation | Breaking Points | 2026-09-14 | 1 |
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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”
“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."”
“We in our book define super intelligence as an AI that is better than the best humans at every mental task.”
“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.”
“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”