Nate Soares

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Nathaniel Soares is an American author and artificial intelligence researcher known for his work on existential risk from AI. In 2014, Soares co-authored "Corrigibility", a paper published in the proceedings of a 2015 AAAI workshop. Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky say the paper introduced the term AI alignment problem, referring to the challenge of making increasingly capable AI systems behave as intended. Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a nonprofit research organization based in Berkeley, California. In 2025, Soares co-authored If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky. In the book, the authors argue that creating AI far more capable than humans (superintelligence), “using anything remotely like current techniques”, would very likely result in human extinction. They further contend that AI alignment research remains at an early stage and that international regulation will likely be required to prevent developers from racing to...

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