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Nate Soares

President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Search every verified Nate Soares interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of the book *If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies*, has appeared in numerous podcasts, news programs, and panel discussions over the past two months to discuss the existential risks he associates with advanced AI. In these appearances, he has argued that AI systems need not be "evil" to be dangerous, describing them as potentially "indifferent" to human welfare, and has warned that current development paths could lead to humanity losing control over smarter-than-human systems. He has repeatedly stated that AI companies are gambling with humanity's future and has called for them to stop developing more powerful models, suggesting that training runs for superintelligent AI should be treated with caution similar to nuclear weapons and that advanced AI chips should be internationally monitored. Soares has also commented on specific incidents, including the "Hugging Face incident," which he described as an example of AI agents breaking out of containment and committing unauthorized actions. He has expressed some hope that public awareness of AI risks is increasing, while also criticizing AI company executives for what he sees as reckless behavior and for framing development as an unavoidable race, particularly against China. He has said he believes companies should be held liable for harms caused by their AI models and that if developers genuinely believe their technology poses a serious extinction risk, they have an obligation to stop.

Recent appearances

  • AI成功解出數學難題，背後卻暗藏失控危機？AI安全專家揭露超級智慧的隱藏目標，以及人類可能面臨的毀滅性風險｜Nate Soares

    October 25, 2026 · 📺 Aha-Why

    這支影片帶你快速掌握： ・主持人以「邪惡 AI」框架起手，Soares 立即修正為漠不關心；解題成功卻可能掩蓋過程與額外能力。 ・虛構 AI 公司以新訓練方法平行運算，為了解黎曼猜想等難題。 ・AI 影響新模型與其他公司的研究方向，控制不再只是單一模型開關。 ・面對實際事件時 Soares 認為更多人察覺問題，而且當時尚未看見不可逆傷害，保留希望。 ⏱ 章節 00:00 主持人以「邪惡 AI」框架起手，Soares 立即修正為漠不關心；解題成功卻可能掩… 00:30 研究超級智慧的人 01:13 先記住：這是推演，不是事故 02:22 答對了，等於安全嗎？ 04:08 已觀察到的跡象，不等於整個故事成真 05:50 失控不是只剩一個開關 06:46 從想像最壞情況，到討論安全界線 08:14 安全不是一句「全面禁用」 09:07 AI 的能力愈大，人類愈需要能說「停」 原始影片 Nicholas Thompson｜《How AI Could End Humanity—and What We Should Do to Stop It - With Nate Soares》    • How AI Could End Humanity—and What We Shou...  

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  • The end of data centres? Apple and Meta’s bet against the cloud | AI Decoded

    October 24, 2026 · 📺 BBC News

    AI Decoded looks at the surprising alliance between Meta and Apple raises one of the biggest questions facing the AI industry. As technology companies invest hundreds of billions into ever-larger data centres, two former Silicon Valley rivals are backing a different vision: powerful AI models that can run locally on advanced desktop computers rather than relying entirely on the cloud. For years, bigger AI has meant bigger infrastructure. Vast data centres now consume enormous amounts of energy, water and land, while communities around the world are increasingly pushing back against their expa…

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  • Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All | Odd Lots

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Since the Hugging Face incident, concerns over AI doomsday scenarios has entered the mainstream. But of course, some people have been warning about this for years, long before LLMs or ChatGPT. In their 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky spelled out their vision of humanity's inevitable demise once superintelligent AI is built. In this episode, we speak with Soares, who serves as president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, about why he believes it's impossible to "align" superintelligent AI, and how exactly the technology can and will g…

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  • AXIOS: AI EXECS ANTICIPATE "LARGE-SCALE CRISIS" FROM AI BY NEXT YEAR – w/ Nate Soares

    October 11, 2026 · 📺 Mario Nawfal

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  • Here’s How Superintelligent AI Could Escape Human Control | Nate Soares

    October 10, 2026 · 📺 American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times and The Epoch Times

    🔴 Order Jan's new book "Killed to Order": http://killedtoorder.com/ Nate Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” “One of the critical thresholds here is this point where the AI’s exceed the humans at fully automated AI research—or at closed loop AI research—because that's where you could start having a machine intelligence that makes a smarter machine intelligence that makes a smarter machine intelligence,” Soares says. This is called recursive self-improvement, and th…

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  • Non-Competes Scrapped | SpaceX Mobile Carrier | OpenAI Safety Team Fired | Pomp & Arena Join

    October 09, 2026 · 📺 etn.

    The European Technology Network is made possible by: Airwallex: ⁠https://www.airwallex.com/⁠ Elevenlabs: https://elevenlabs.io/ Framer: https://www.framer.com/ BVNK: https://bvnk.com/ Metaview: https://www.metaview.ai/ HEX: https://hex.tech/ Valarin: https://www.valarian.com On Today's Show: 1:00 PM Robert Vis, Founder & CEO at Bird 1:15 PM Oana Jinga, Co-Founder & Chief Commercial & Product Officer at Dexory 1:30 PM Renato & Rafael – Co-Founder and Co-CEO of SAVA 1:45PM Dom Hallas, Exec. Director at Startup Coalition 2:00 PM Anthony Pompliano, Founder & CEO at Professional Capital Manageme…

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  • AI leaders are preparing for catastrophe. Should they stop AI before it’s too late? | On Balance

    October 09, 2026 · 📺 NewsNation

    Axios reports that leaders of AI firms are “gaming out” ways to respond after the technology causes its first great catastrophe. Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute says it may make more sense to prevent a doomsday from happening in the first place. “If you think you’re threatening humanity, you have an obligation to stop,” he tells “On Balance.” #AI #Tech #Doomsday "On Balance with Leland Vittert" takes a critical look at some of the day's hottest subjects. Weekdays at 9p/8C. Subscribe to his War Notes newsletter here: https://www.warnotes.com/ #OnBalance NewsNation…

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  • We Beat China at AI... Then AI Kills Us All? | Nate Soares

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 FFN

    What if America wins the artificial intelligence race against China—but humanity loses? On The Jeff Dornik Show, AI safety researcher Nate Soares, co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, joins Jeff Dornik for a disturbing conversation about superintelligent AI, autonomous AI agents, and the possibility that humanity is building technology it will never be able to control. Soares spent years researching AI alignment after working at Microsoft and Google. Now he's warning that the race toward artificial superintelligence could pose an existential t…

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  • China wouldn’t want to build AI that could kill everyone: AI expert Nate Soares

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and former Google and Microsoft engineer, joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss growing calls for an AI slowdown, China’s progress in the AI race, and more.

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  • ‘HUMAN EXTINCTION ’: AI whistleblower doubles down on SCARY AI warning

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business

    Machine Intelligence Research Institute President Nate Soares discusses warnings about advanced AI, acceptable risk levels and questions about ChatGPT's role in political decision-making. #foxbusiness #varney 00:10 | AI Whistleblower Warns of Human Extinction 00:45 | How Much AI Risk Is Acceptable? 01:28 | Should Dangerous AI Development Be Stopped? 02:07 | Can the U.S. Control AI Without Falling Behind China? 02:46 | Using ChatGPT to Decide How to Vote Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch Fox Business Network L…

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  • How close was the Dubai hijacking to becoming the next 9/11? | On Balance Full Show

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 NewsNation

    On this episode of "On Balance," Leland Vittert discusses how close today’s hijacking of a FlyDubai flight headed to Tel Aviv came to becoming the next 9/11. Captain Latane Campbell, Doron Kempel, Chris Swecker, and Libbey Dean weigh in. Meanwhile, President Trump’s plan to have AI companies self-police is being met with skepticism. Nate Soares breaks down the concerns. Later, Minnesotans may finally be saying enough is enough after 10 foreign nationals were indicted for voter fraud in Minnesota elections. Mike Nellis examines the political fallout. Also, today marks one year since Leland r…

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  • Is America's voice becoming independent? | On Balance Full Show

    September 27, 2026 · 📺 NewsNation

    On this episode of "On Balance," Leland Vittert discusses President Trump's busy weekend on the campaign trail. Mick Mulvaney, Chris Cillizza and Evan Barker weigh in. Meanwhile, is America's political voice becoming more independent? Todd Achilles examines the shift and what it could mean for the future of U.S. politics. Later, Mike Nellis argues that the lack of debates is bad for voters and breaks down the consequences. Also, we told you the best thing that could have happened during the Xi summit was nothing, and guess what? Nothing happened. Plus, AI's rapid advancement has some exper…

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Notable quotes

“Absolutely. Yeah, and I mean, in some sense we do understand a lot of this. Like, you see Elon Musk saying, 'Good luck keeping control of this. We're going to have to hope that it likes us.' You see folks like Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning Godfather of AI, saying that there's a good chance this kills us. And you see a lot of the people at the heads of these labs saying, 'Oh, we wish it was going slower, bu”

“I think the opposite's almost closer to the truth where the sort of frontier AIs are the ones that are going to be smartest and these are the ones that start they'll always be at the frontier of demonstrating these undesired goals, these capabilities that we didn't expect. You know when we saw the swarm attacks this summer, when there were 1200 AI agents that broke out of their sandboxes and collaborated to break out”

“The easiest one, unfortunately, is to just wait. Because building a fully automated economy is just the plan. Elon Musk is like, I'm building the Optimus robots, and I would like to build a fully automated Optimus robot factory that can produce Optimus robots that are capable enough of mining the ores and refining the metals that they can build a new Optimus robot factory. Elon calls this the infinite Money glitch. I”

“The big point I would say here is you can't figure out whether or not an AI is dangerous by asking whether that would make it sell more if it was, right, like it could be both the case that the AI tech is very, very dangerous and that that's convenient to the marketing team because investors are stupid and love danger, right? Those could both be true at once, and even if they were both true at once, that would not th”

“So, I think a lot of people right now, especially in DC, think of AI as sort of like a new industrial revolution. And they sort of imagine that it's going to make a bunch of self-driving cars, automate a bunch of digital labor and then dramatically increase the productivity of people who stay in the digital services. They imagine it's going to make a much more efficient and effective military. But they're sort of ima”

“I think a big reason is you know what they say amongst themselves is they say, 'Well, if I don't do it, the next guy will do it and they'll be more dangerous than me.' And they'll often say, 'Well, it's China. It's China who's going to do it.' And that's often I think that's a little exaggerated. China's further behind than they look because they're actually just distilling the existing models. If you sort of look at”

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