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The New York Times Bestseller

IF ANYONE
BUILDS IT, EVERYONE
DIES

Eliezer Yudkowsky
& Nate Soares

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A sober but highly readable book on the very real risks of AI.
Bruce Schneier
leading computer security expert
The most important book of the decade.
Max Tegmark
Professor of Physics, MIT
The authors raise an incredibly serious issue that merits – really demands – our attention.
Suzanne Spaulding
former Under Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security
The most important book I've read for years: I want to bring it to every political and corporate leader in the world and stand over them until they've read it!
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FROM THE BOOK

If any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI, then everyone, everywhere on Earth, will die.

We do not mean that as hyperbole. We are not exaggerating for effect. We think that is the most direct extrapolation from the knowledge, evidence, and institutional conduct around artificial intelligence today. In this book, we lay out our case, in the hope of rallying enough key decision-makers and regular people to take AI seriously. The default outcome is lethal, but the situation is not hopeless; machine superintelligence doesn't exist yet, and its creation can yet be prevented.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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.

Nate Soares

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.

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Published by Little, Brown and Company
September 16, 2025
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