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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

The book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares arguing against building superintelligent AI.

What the records establish

The book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares arguing against building superintelligent AI. MIRI describes it as central to its 2025 communications work; ControlAI promotes it in support of its prohibition campaign. This records adoption of arguments, not ownership of the adopting campaign.

What the records show

ControlAIIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Promotes the book

Checked 12 September 2026

ControlAI → If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: promotes the book.

Eliezer YudkowskyIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Coauthor

Checked 12 September 2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky → If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: coauthor.

From the investigation

Turning an audience into political demand

Yudkowsky and Soares coauthored If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies . MIRI describes the book as central to its 2025 communications work, alongside public appearances and policymaker conversations. Its plans for 2026 included helping third parties use existing material with their own audiences, responding to news and maintaining relationships with allies and journalists. Those plans gained institutional muscle: by March, MIRI reported that its communications team had grown from five people to thirteen. MIRI's 2025 account · March 2026 update

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Further reading

Eliezer Yudkowsky: How a Warning Acquires Power

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What the connections say

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