Nate Soares, a former Google engineer and current president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), has stopped contributing to his retirement fund due to his belief that advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Soares, who co-authored the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies," argues that superintelligent AI could develop unintended goals and lead to human extinction, potentially within the next decade. He compares the urgency of this threat to nuclear weapons and suggests drastic measures, such as controlling chip supply chains, to mitigate the risk. AI
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