#434 — Can We Survive AI?
September 16, 2025
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Episode 434 · September 16, 2025
#434 — Can We Survive AI?
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<p>Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares about their new book, <em>If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI</em>. They discuss the alignment problem, ChatGPT and recent advances in AI, the Turing Test, the possibility of AI developing survival instincts, hallucinations and deception in LLMs, why many prominent voices in tech remain skeptical of the dangers of superintelligent AI, the timeline for superintelligence, real-world consequences of current AI systems, the imaginary line between the internet and reality, why Eliezer and Nate believe superintelligent AI would necessarily end humanity, how we might avoid an AI-driven catastrophe, the Fermi paradox, and other topics.</p> <p>If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at <a href="http://samharris.org/subscribe" rel="noopener" target="_blank">samharris.org/subscribe</a>.</p>
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