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AI Safety Researcher Nate Soares Stops Retirement Saving Over Extinction Fears

Nate Soares, coauthor of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies," says he has stopped adding to his 401(k) because he believes there is better than a 50% chance AI will cause human extinction within 10 years.

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Oct 27, 12:05 PM fortune.com Ex-Google engineer Nate Soares hasn’t added to his 401(k) in a decade because he’s an ‘AI kills all humans guy’
Oct 27, 1:57 AM businessinsider.com An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the next 10 years