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Ex–Google engineer Nate Soares hasn’t added to his 401(k) in a decade because he’s an ‘AI kills all humans guy’
One of the best-known names in AI safety says he no longer saves for retirement, because he lives with the belief that AI will probably kill everyone before we even get to retirement age.
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One of the best-known names in AI safety says he no longer saves for retirement, because he lives with the belief that AI will probably kill everyone before we even get to retirement age. Nate Soares, a former Google engineer who is now president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), still has the 401(k) he opened at Google, but he just hasn’t put money into it in about 10 years.
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