If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Quotes

“If any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI, then everyone, everywhere on Earth, will die.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

“AIs grown in this way do things that their growers did not intend. In 2023”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

“The survivors of the blind cheerful optimists turn into cynical pessimistic veterans;”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

“With this book, we hope to inspire individuals and countries to rise to the occasion.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

“The inner workings of batteries and rocket engines are well understood, governed by known physics recorded in careful textbooks. AIs, on the other hand, are grown, and no one understands their inner workings. There are fewer equations to constrain one's thinking... and so, many opportunities to think about high-minded ideals like truth-seeking instead.

If you know the history of science, this kind of talk is recognizable as the stage of folk theory, the stage where lots of different people are inventing lots of different theories that appeal to them personally, the way people talk before science has really gotten started on something. They're the words of an alchemist who's decided that some complicated philosophical scheme will let them transmute lead into gold.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All