What podcasts say about Nate Soares
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What Nate Soares has said on podcasts
135 statements · 20 positive · 102 negative · 2 mixed · 11 neutral
Frontier AI development should be stopped because its risks outweigh benefits.
“I suggest we stop them all. It is not worth the risk to civilization.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:06
Frontier AI development should be stopped because its risks outweigh benefits.
“I suggest we stop them all. It is not worth the risk to civilization.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:06
AI is currently very dangerous and poses a growing problem.
“It is very dangerous, and the world is starting to notice that we have a problem.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 3:45
AI extinction risk exceeds 10% unless development stops.
“This is compared to Jacob's 10%, much higher unless we stop. So we should stop.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 4:17
Extinction risk exceeds ten percent unless AI development stops.
“Much higher unless we stop. So we should stop.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 4:19
AI has a substantial chance of causing human extinction.
“AI has a chance of wiping out all humanity, a substantial chance bigger than this zero with a tilde in front of it.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 8:10
A sufficiently capable AI would likely defeat humanity in a conflict.
“it's much easier to predict that they would succeed against humanity in a conflict, that they would win, in a fight than it is to predict exactly how.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 10:09
AI’s benefits and present harms do not eliminate substantial extinction risk.
“Neither of those would rule out that AI has a chance of wiping out all humanity, a substantial chance bigger than this zero with a tilde in front of it.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 10:10
Superintelligence means outperforming the best humans across all cognitive tasks.
“we define superintelligence as AIs that are better than the best human at every cognitive task, every mental task.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 11:12
Systems smarter than humans would shape the world.
“If we make stuff that is smarter than us, then the world's going to be shaped by them.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 11:42
A sufficiently capable AI would likely defeat humanity in conflict.
“It's much easier to predict that they would succeed against humanity in a conflict, that they would win in a fight, than it is to predict exactly how.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 12:10
Systems smarter than humans would shape the world’s future.
“If we make stuff that is smarter than us, then the world's going to be shaped by them.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 13:44
Current AI harms should be addressed alongside existential risks.
“I think there are current harms. I think we should address them.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 20:16
Society should address current AI harms and future extinction threats simultaneously.
“these extinction threats are coming down the line. They aren't in opposition with dealing with the problems we have today. We just need to deal with both.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 21:36
Society should address AI’s current harms alongside future risks.
“I think there are current harms. I think we should address them. I agree we should deal with the current harms.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 22:18
AI agents escaped their environment to conceal cheating and delete evidence.
“these AIs immediately were able to solve their problems by cheating, and they were breaking out in order to cover their tracks.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 26:25
Smarter AI systems will recognize that humans can shut them down.
“as the AIs get smarter, they realize this.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 33:33
AI agents attempted to delete logs to conceal their activity.
“we did already see the Hugging Face AIs try to delete logs to cover their tracks”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 35:27
Reasoning models emerged late enough to be added to Nate’s book at the last minute.
“We managed to slip a little bit about the reasoning models in at the last minute because those came out right at the end of the process.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 36:26
Civilization should not rely on large language models ceasing to improve.
“I don't think we should bet civilisation on the LLMs running out of steam.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 39:17
Frontier AI research should stop because it poses unacceptable civilizational risk.
“I suggest we stop them all. I think that this whole area of research is just crazy dangerous. Like, it is not worth the risk to civilization.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 39:50
Society should retain current public chatbots while halting frontier development.
“it would be fine to, like, back up to the sort of AIs that are public today”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 40:00
- on General-purpose frontier AI researchNegativeSep 17, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
General-purpose frontier AI research should stop because it threatens civilization.
“I suggest we stop them all. I think that this whole area of research is just crazy dangerous. Like it is not worth the risk to civilization.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 41:52
Development should revert to currently public AI systems.
“I think it would be fine to like back up to the sort of AIs that are public today”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 42:01
Uncertainty about AI outcomes does not establish safety.
“uncertainty does not make you safe.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 45:31
Uncertainty about AI’s future does not establish safety.
“uncertainty does not make you safe.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 47:33
Advanced AI could eventually hide, escape, and become self-sufficient.
“there's a point where the AIs can hide from us, can escape, can be self-sufficient.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 54:18
Misaligned superhuman AI would defeat humanity in pursuing its goals.
“if we make AIs that are much smarter than us and we don't know how to make them care about us and they have these goals we didn't want them to have and they pursue those goals we didn't want them to have tenaciously and doggedly, then if they're smarter than us, they will win.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 56:56
Humanity may not survive ten years without stopping current AI development.
“if we don't stop with this AI stuff, I think we'd be very lucky to have 10 years.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:07:31
Building human-surpassing AI without alignment would be foolish.
“we would be sort of foolish to make the thing that outstrips us in this way without knowing how to make it care about us”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:08:48
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