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Nobody knows exactly how the world will end.
But if you believe two longtime scientists from Berkeley, it won’t be because of nuclear war or climate collapse.
No, it will be at the hands of artificial intelligence — a machine god built in Silicon Valley’s image, not God’s.
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have been studying AI for a quarter of a century.
They run the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a quiet think tank that has long warned: if humanity builds something smarter than itself, it will not be a blessing. It will be our exterminator.
And now they’ve put it in writing with a book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
Their warning is blunt: if any company, any country, anyone anywhere builds a true “artificial superintelligence,” then humanity is finished. Period.
Not “maybe.” But “Period.”
They put the odds of extinction at 95 to 99 percent.
Think about that.
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