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Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and author of the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, made a discouraging statement: he believes that humanity could disappear in less than 10 years, which is why he has stopped saving for his retirement.
During his appearance on The Atlantic's podcast, The Most Interesting Thing in AI, Soares explained that he has not contributed money to his retirement for a decade and that he only maintains a 401(k) plan from when he worked at Google.
"For now, I don't save for retirement. I have a 401(k) plan from when I worked at Google, but I haven't contributed anything to it for a decade," he detailed.
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The AI expert believes that humanity might have less than a decade left and estimates that there is a more than 50% chance of this catastrophic scenario occurring.
"Right now it looks like we probably don't have even a decade left... It seems to me that there is a more than 50% chance that, at this point, we don't have even a decade left," he expressed.
Soares assured that, from his work, he does everything possible to prevent this from happening, although he believes it is an inevitable destiny.
"I do everything I can to prevent that from happening. I don't think it's inevitable".
However, not everything is lost. The specialist stated that humanity is still in time to stop the development of dangerous AI and that, despite his concerns about the future, he tries to enjoy life.
"I think we could still stop this race toward a very dangerous type of AI, but I do what I can and then I dedicate myself to living a good life".
What does Nate Soares recommend to artificial intelligence researchers?
Likewise, Soares recommended that AI researchers quit their jobs, as Jacob Coxon of Anthropic did.
The expert considered that "it seems quite clear at this point that AI alignment research is simply not going to yield results in time, or is not even close to achieving it".
Furthermore, he assured that "the only reason to stay would be to try to organize large groups of employees to demand internal changes as a condition for continuing to remain at the company".
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