Nate Soares ⏹️ (@So8res) / X

Nate Soares ⏹️

2,120 posts

Nate Soares ⏹️

@So8res

Trying to make AI not kill everyone

Berkeley

Joined January 2011

Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Oct 20, 2023
My current stance on AI is: Fucking stop. Find some other route to the glorious transhuman future. There’s debate within the AI alignment community re whether the chance of AI killing literally everyone is more like 20% or 95%, but 20% means worse odds than Russian roulette.
522K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Feb 18, 2025
back when I was young, I thought it was unrealistic for the Volunteer Fire Department to schism into a branch that fought fires and a branch that started them
42K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
May 14, 2025
I wrote a book with Eliezer Yudkowsky. It’s about how smarter-than-human AI is on track to kill us all, written in hopes of bringing the conversation into the mainstream. Lots of people are alarmed; ~nobody wants to sound alarmist. The time is ripe. Preorders help. Link below.
137K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Sep 20, 2025
It's weird when someone says "this tech I'm making has a 25% chance of killing everyone" and doesn't add "the world would be better-off if everyone, including me, was stopped."
127K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Sep 19, 2021
It takes more cleverness to articulate a thought than to think it. If you're thinking at the limits of your abilities, you have thoughts you can't articulate.
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Feb 12, 2025
"our AIs that can't do long-term planning yet aren't making any long-term plans to subvert us! this must be becaues we're very good at alignment."
60K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Sep 25, 2025
The book I wrote with Eliezer Yudkowsky is now a New York Times Bestseller. I hope this is just the start of people around the world recognizing that the race to superintelligence is insanely reckless.
14K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Nov 21, 2023
Reminder: my reason for expecting AI to go poorly is, deep down, not about alignment being ultra-hard, but about Earth beeing a very derpy place.
53K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Apr 21, 2025
Whether or not criminals deserve due process is beside the point. The point is that due process is how the state determines whether or not someone is a criminal.
17K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Feb 8, 2021
Replying to @So8res
Relatedly, one (among many) of my beefs w/ modern schools (& culture more generally) is how much it harps on the dark aspects of humanity, and how little it highlights the light. Humans are rad. Humanity is rad. Sometimes hapless, sometimes evil, but overall, fuck yeah.
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Feb 3, 2025
Americans: "I'll fucking do it, I'll cut my foot off" Canadians, revving chainsaw: "don't you dare. you think you're the only one who can cut their own foot off??"
31K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Mar 24, 2024
Replying to @Aella_Girl
c'mon ladies, this is how we get kicked out of paradise
8.7K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Jun 15, 2025
Replying to @Grimezsz and @HumanHarlan
preorder link, for anyone who wants to grab a copy:
ifanyonebuildsit.com
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The race to superhuman AI risks extinction, but it's not too late to change course.
118K
Nate Soares ⏹️
@So8res
Mar 10, 2025
.@Aella_Girl, casually out of nowhere: "so I bought equipment to take a bath,"
36K