Q&A with Nate Soares, co-author of 'If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies'

​Join us for a Q&A with Nate Soares, co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

​ABOUT THE BOOK

​How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive.

The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies.

​"The most important book of the decade." - Max Tegmark, Professor of Physics, MIT

"Soares and Yudkowsky lay out, in plain and easy-to-follow terms, why our current path toward ever-more-powerful AIs is extremely dangerous." - Emmett Shear, former interim CEO of OpenAI

​AGENDA

• ​6:00 pm - Doors open

• ​6:30 pm - Dinner and mingling

• ​7:30 pm - Q&A

​ABOUT THE AUTHORS

​Nate Soares is the President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He has been working in the field for over a decade, after previous experience at Microsoft and Google. Soares is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, including foundational work on value learning, decision theory, and power-seeking incentives in smarter-than-human AIs.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a founding researcher of the field of AI alignment and the co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. With influential work spanning more than twenty years, Yudkowsky has played a major role in shaping the public conversation about smarter-than-human AI. He appeared on Time magazine's 2023 list of the 100 Most Influential People In AI, and has been discussed or interviewed in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Forbes, Wired, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Economist, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.

​Note: Eliezer will not be attending this Q&A!

​Admission & Book Bundle:

• ​Cost: $48.00

• ​Includes: Entry to the event, dinner, and copy of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

​General Admission:

• ​Cost: $28

• ​Includes: Entry to the event and dinner