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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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A.I. is becoming smarter without much help from humans, and that should worry us all. Nate Soares, president of Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what happens when A.I. brain power surpasses what humans are capable of, why we don’t have the technology yet to understand what we’re building, and why everything will be just fine … until it isn’t. His book, co-written with Eliezer Yudkowsky, is “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.”
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| 1:06.5 | What will that mean once the AI can do everything better than the flesh and blood creatures |
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| 1:16.1 | I'm Chris Boyd. |
| 1:17.1 | AI is not there yet, but it keeps getting more capable and powerful all the time. |
| 1:23.2 | Some of that evolution can happen without human intervention or even human comprehension of how or why. |
| 1:29.9 | And my guest believes there is a strong chance that once artificial intelligence supersedes us entirely, |
| 1:35.5 | it will have little use for humans, which could pose an existential threat. |
| 1:40.9 | Nate Souries is president of Machine Intelligence Research Institute, or Miri. Together with |
| 1:45.9 | Eliezer Yudkowski, he is the author of, if anyone builds it, everyone dies. Why superhuman AI |
| 1:52.1 | would kill us all. Nate, welcome to think. Thanks for having me. That is quite a subtitle. |
| 1:57.8 | Not could kill us all, might kill us all, would kill us all. |
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