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A compelling case that superhuman AI would almost certainly lead to global human annihilation. Governments around the world must recognize the risks and take collective and effective action.

Jon Wolfsthal, former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

A compelling case that superhuman AI would almost certainly lead to global human annihilation. Governments around the world must recognize the risks...

Jon Wolfsthal, former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

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!

Stephen Fry, actor and writer

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 authors raise an incredibly serious issue that merits — really demands — our attention... fascinating, accessible, and thought-provoking.

Suzanne Spaulding, former Under Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security

The authors raise an incredibly serious issue that merits—really demands—our attention. You don’t have to agree with the predictions or prescriptions in this book, nor do you have to be tech or AI savvy, to find it fascinating, accessible, and thought-provoking.

Suzanne Spaulding, former Under Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies isn't just a wake-up call; it's a fire alarm ringing with clarity and urgency.

Mark Ruffalo, actor

Exploring these possibilities helps surface critical risks and questions we cannot collectively afford to overlook.

Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award winner and scientific director of MILA

This is our warning. Read today. Circulate tomorrow. Demand the guardrails. I'll keep betting on humanity, but first we must wake up.

R.P. Eddy, former Director, White House, National Security Council

A clearly written and compelling account of the existential risks that highly advanced AI could pose to humanity. Recommended.

Ben Bernanke, Nobel laureate and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Essential reading for policymakers, journalists, researchers, and the general public.

Bart Selman, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

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

A sober but highly readable book on the very real risks of AI.

Bruce Schneier, leading computer security expert

While I'm skeptical that the current trajectory of AI development will lead to human extinction, I acknowledge that this view may reflect a failure of imagination on my part. Given AI's exponential pace of change there's no better time to take prudent steps to guard against worst-case outcomes. The authors offer important proposals for global guardrails and risk mitigation that deserve serious consideration.

Lieutenant General John N.T. "Jack" Shanahan (USAF, Ret.), Inaugural Director, Department of Defense Joint AI Center

The most important book of the decade.

Max Tegmark, Professor of Physics, MIT

Brilliant…Shows how we can and should prevent superhuman AI from killing us all.

George Church, Founding Core Faculty, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

This book offers brilliant insights into history's most consequential standoff between technological utopia and dystopia, and shows how we can and should prevent superhuman AI from killing us all.

George Church, Founding Core Faculty, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read.

Yishan Wong, former CEO of Reddit

Humans are lucky to have Soares and Yudkowsky in our corner, reminder us not to waste the brief window of time that we have to make decisions about our future.

Grimes, musician

An Artificial Intelligence war cannot be won and must never be fought.

Dr Brooke Taylor, CEO, Defending Our Country, LLC