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Eliezer and I wrote a book. It’s titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Unlike a lot of other writing either of us have done, it’s being professionally published. It’s hitting shelves on September 16th. It’s a concise (~60k word) book aimed at a broad audience. It’s been well-received by people who received advance copies, with some endorsements including: > The most important book I’ve read for years: I want to bring it to every political and corporate leader in the world and stand over them until they’ve read it. Yudkowsky and Soares, who have studied AI and its possible trajectories for decades, sound a loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster. Their brilliant gift for analogy, metaphor and parable clarifies for the general reader the tangled complexities of AI engineering, cognition and neuroscience better than any book on the subject I’ve ever read, and I’ve waded through scores of them. We really must rub our eyes and wake the **** up! - Stephen Fry, actor, broadcaster, and writer > If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies may prove to be the most important book of our time. Yudkowsky and Soares believe we are nowhere near ready to make the transition to superintelligence safely, leaving us on the fast track to extinction. Through the use of parables and crystal-clear explainers, they convey their reasoning, in an urgent plea for us to save ourselves while we still can. - Tim Urban, co-founder, Wait But Why > This is the best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read. - Yishan Wong, former CEO of Reddit Lots of people are alarmed about AI, and many of them are worried about sounding alarmist. With our book, we’re trying to break that logjam, and bring this conversation into the mainstream. This is our big push to get the world onto a different track. We’ve been working on it for over a year. The time feels ripe to me. I don’t know how many more chances we’ll get. MIRI’s dedicating a lot of reso