The most important book Ive read for years: I want to bring it to every political and corporate leader in the world and stand over them until theyve read it. Yudkowsky and Soares, who have studied AI and its possible trajectories for decades, sound a loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster. Their brilliant gift for analogy, metaphor and parable clarifies for the general reader the tangled complexities of AI engineering, cognition and neuroscience better than any book on the subject Ive ever read, and Ive waded through scores of them. We really must rub our eyes and wake the fuck up! -- Stephen Fry This captivating page-turner, from two of today's clearest thinkers, reveals that the competition to build smarter-than-human machines isn't an arms race but a suicide race, fuelled by wishful thinking -- Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies may prove to be the most important book of our time. Yudkowsky and Soares believe we are nowhere near ready to make the transition to superintelligence safely, leaving us on the fast track to extinction. Through the use of parables and crystal-clear explainers, they convey their reasoning, in an urgent plea for us to save ourselves while we still can -- Tim Urban, co-founder of Wait But Why The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read -- Yishan Wong, former CEO of Reddit Soares and Yudkowsky lay out, in plain and easy-to-follow terms, why our current path toward ever-more-powerful AIs is extremely dangerous -- Emmett Shear, former interim CEO of OpenAI An eloquent and urgent plea for us to step back from the brink of self-annihilation -- Fiona Hill, Defence Advisor to UK government Everyone should read this book. Im 70% confident that you yes, you reading this right now will one day grudgingly admit that we all should have listened to Yudkowsky and Soares when we still had the chance -- Daniel Kokotajlo, OpenAI whistleblower and lead author, AI 2027
