Nate Soares
Nate Soares is the executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), an organization focused on ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence. With a background as an engineer at major tech companies like Google and Microsoft, Soares has been a prominent voice in discussions about the potential risks associated with AI. Recently, he made headlines by stating that the likelihood of human extinction due to advanced AI could be as high as 95% if current development paths continue unchecked.
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Nate Soares is a researcher at Berkeley, California, known for his apocalyptic predictions.
Cognizant, le géant américain des services informatiques, poursuit son déploiement de l’IA
France· 2026-02-02
Nate Soares is a researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute who warns about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Le chercheur Nate Soares, « doomer » de l’IA à Berkeley, prévoit la fin de l’humanité : « C’est de la folie de les laisser essayer »France· 2025-12-14
Nate Soares co-authored a book warning about the dangers of superintelligent AI.
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United Kingdom· 2025-12-03
Nate Soares co-authored a book titled 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI'.
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Canada· 2025-10-20
Nate Soares is an AI expert who discusses the implications of AI actors.
Tilly Norwood, the AI ‘actor’, has got Hollywood alarmed – The Irish Times
Ireland· 2025-10-05
Nate Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, warning about the dangers of AI.
Time to act, or fold by default – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-09-28
Soares, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, expressed concerns about AI steering in directions nobody wanted.
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Australia· 2025-09-28Nate Soares co-authored Yudkowsky's new book.
Warum Eliezer Yudkowsky an die KI-Apokalypse glaubt
Switzerland· 2025-09-18
Nate Soares, former engineer at Google and Microsoft, currently leads the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and assesses humanity's chances of survival against AI development as very low.
Искусственный интеллект может привести к вымиранию человечества, — предупреждают эксперты
Belarus· 2025-08-02
Nate Soares, the head of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, stated that the probability of human extinction due to artificial intelligence is at least 95 percent.
Человечеству предрекли вымирание из-за ИИ с высокой долей вероятности: 02 августа 2025, 00:54
Kazakhstan· 2025-08-01