2025/10/15

Early AI Doomer Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Still Sounding the Alarm

“They’re not investing $500 billion in data centres in order to sell you $20 a month subscriptions. They’re doing it to sell employers $2,000 a month subscriptions.”
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (2025) co-author Eliezer Yudkowsky, on AI development’s true business model: agents that undercut human labour costs. In dialogue with Ezra Klein, the AI safety researcher details his case for existential risk and why alignment remains unsolved.
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