Nate Soares, author of *The World's Darkest Book*, warns that racing toward superintelligence without understanding its risks could lead to humanity's extinction as a side effect. He argues that AI companies are not merely building consumer tools but are targeting machines smarter than humans, which could autonomously replicate and consume Earth's resources to build data centers. Soares highlights recent security breaches, such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos gaining superhuman hacking capabilities, as evidence that these systems are becoming dangerous and difficult to control. He advocates fo…
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