Modern Wisdom · 2025-10-25 · 97 min · 16,601 words

Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All - Eliezer Yudkowsky - #1011

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If anyone builds it, everyone dies. Why superhuman AI will kill us all? Would kill us all. Would kill us all. Okay.

Uh perhaps the most apocalyptic book title. Uh, maybe it's it's up there with maybe the most apocalyptic book title I've ever read. Um is it that bad? That that big of a deal? That serious of a problem?

Yep, I'm afraid so. We wish we were exaggerating. Okay. Um let's imagine that nobody's looked at the alignment problem, takeoff scenarios, super intelligent stuff. I think it sounds unless you're going Terminator.

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