A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares

Let's have a sober conversation about the existential risk we can face from AI with the president of the organization that's been sounding the alarm the longest. That's coming up right after this. This episode is brought to you by Genesis. What does it actually take to put a Gentic AI to work across an entire enterprise? I recently spoke with Genesis chairman and CEO Tony Bates about why orchestration is emerging as a competitive advantage in customer experience and what companies need to get right in the AI era.

Then I sat down with Adam Mitchell, head of Enterprise Business Solutions at Voya Financial to go inside a large-scale Agentich CX transformation, including the business decisions, trade-offs, and lessons along the way. You can watch both conversations now on my YouTube channel today. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world. and beyond, well, we have debated the existential risk we can face from AI on this show many times, talking all about the incentives that the labs have for playing up the threat, whether the whistleblowers are legit, I think it is long past time to have a sober conversation about the actual risks that we can face. from Superintelligent AI.

And today joining us is Nate Soros. He is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He's also the author of this book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, which is a New York Times bestseller. And Miri has been sounding the alarm the longest. You may know Eliezer Yudkowski, who founded it.

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