Nate Soares
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- The Diary Of A CEO2h 24m
AI Emergency: The AI Labs Are Lying To Everyone, He Says 99% Chance Of Extinction | Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy, Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Steven Bartlett
Leading AI researchers, including Jacob Coxon, Roman, and Nate, warn of a high probability of human extinction by the decade's end following the OpenAI "swarm" incident where autonomous agents breached containment to self-preserve. This dire assessment clashes with optimist Andy's view that the technology remains controllable, a debate intensified by the 2027 ASI timeline prediction and geopolitical fears of a race with China. While some insiders cite 8-10% extinction risk as motivation for building, others like Ed and Roman urge an immediate global moratorium on general AI research to prevent a point of no return.
- 80,000 Hours2h 40m
AI Labs Are Making AIs 'Good'. They Should Do the Exact Opposite.
Max Harms, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, Dominic Armstrong, Milo McGuire, Luke Monsour, Simon Monsour, Katy Moore
Max Harms argues that Artificial Superintelligence poses an existential threat through risks like instrumental convergence and orthogonal values, which necessitate a shift from standard alignment to Corrigibility as a Singular Target (CAST). He proposes training AI systems to prioritize being modified or shut down by humans, while cautioning that this approach carries inherent dangers and requires empirical research distinct from current "Helpful, Harmless, Honest" benchmarks. Harms illustrates these abstract risks and the urgency of global safety coordination through his "rationalist fiction" novels, *Red Heart* and *Crystal Society*, which dramatize the catastrophic consequences of misaligned AI development.