TAC Right Now
TAC Right Now
The American Conservative
Nate Soares Warns of Superintelligent AI
49 minutes Posted Jul 10, 2026 at 1:01 pm.
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TAC Correspondent Harrison Berger and Associate Editor Joseph Addington speak with Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Soares argues that the leading AI companies are on track to build machines smarter than any human across all mental tasks, and that goal, if achieved, likely ends humanity.