IFES's Lisa Poggiali Reviews Controversial New AI Book
January 06, 2026IFES's Dr. Lisa Poggiali reviews If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares, in the September 18 issue of Science, the leading multidisciplinary, international journal of peer-reviewed research. Poggiali questions Yudkowsky's and Soare's alarmist predictions about the inevitability of human extinction at the hands of rogue AI, and suggests that global policymakers should instead prioritize creating guardrails to address the multitude of empirically verified AI-generated harms and risks we are facing right now.
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