president, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Nate Soares
president | Machine Intelligence Research Institute
About Nate
Nathaniel Soares is an American artificial intelligence researcher and author specializing in existential risk associated with artificial intelligence. He is known for his co-authorship of a 2014 paper that introduced the concept of AI alignment, which concerns ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems behave as intended. Soares serves as the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. In 2025, he co-authored the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky. The book discusses the risks of creating vastly smarter-than-human AI using current techniques, emphasizing that such efforts could very likely lead to human extinction. Soares argues that AI alignment remains an early-stage challenge and suggests that international regulatory intervention will probably be necessary to prevent competitive races among developers that could produce catastrophic systems. The publication garnered mainstream attention and received mixed reviews from outlets including The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Coverage of the work also appeared in Wired, Semafor, and SFGATE.
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Latest interviews
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Critical Media Studies
#110: Yudkowski and Soares - If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Jan 9, 2026
Botez Sisters Podcast
Nate Soares
Dec 29, 2025
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares
Dec 3, 2025
The Last Invention
The AI Doomers
Nov 6, 2025
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Nate Soares: we are doomed (probably)
Nov 4, 2025
The Takeout with Major Garrett
Nate Soares on the Dangers of AI [Extended Interview]
Oct 30, 2025
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Will AI superintelligence kill us all? (with Nate Soares)
Oct 15, 2025
The Jim Rutt Show
EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Oct 15, 2025
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2021 MIRI Conversations
2 episodes
Shows
2
Critical Media Studies
1 episode
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1
Botez Sisters Podcast
1 episode
Shows
1
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
1 episode
Shows
1
The Last Invention
1 episode
Shows
1
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
1 episode
Shows
1
The Takeout with Major Garrett
1 episode
Shows
1
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
1 episode
Shows
1
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