GoKawiilMIRI president Nate Soares says he's stopped saving for retirement over AI extinction fears
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, told The Atlantic's Nicholas Thompson that he no longer contributes to retirement savings, including a 401(k) left untouched since leaving Google a decade ago. Soares argues a superintelligent AI wouldn't need to hate humans to eliminate them—it could simply treat us as obstacles once it no longer depends on us to maintain infrastructure. He is also the author of a book titled 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.'