AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Will Kill Us All by Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky, held March 15, 2026. Our discussion touches on a variety of topics, including whether the book's use of parables strengthens or weakens its argument, the question of whether AI can develop genuine intentions, the competitive dynamics that prevent any single company from pumping the brakes, the limits of recursive self-improvement, and what ordinary people should make of wildly conflicting predictions from leading AI thinkers. This post also includes discussion questions,...

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AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' is an episode from I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast by Tom Johnson.

This episode is 55:43 long.

This episode was published on Mar 17, 2026.

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