If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on Behind the Bastards.
The general take
Garrison Davis mentions Eliezer Yudkowsky's book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" as a work recommended by someone he's covering, noting it's part of Yudkowsky's broader body of writing on AI existential risk. The book is presented factually as part of rationalist thought and AI safety discourse, without Davis adding particular endorsement or criticism.
About
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2025 | The Guardian 's Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 Booklist Editors' Choice Pick The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity. "May prove to be the most important book of our time.”—Tim Urban, Wait But Why In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next.
Who said what
Garrison Davis💬 Mentioned
…book about AI existential risk by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“He recommended that people read Eliezer Yudkowsky's book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and other posts on his sub-stack also mention Yudkowsky's work, who's one of the forefathers of, quote, unquote, rationalism, rationalist thought, and writes a lot about AI, like, doom, that AI will bring apart the end of humanity.”
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