An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the next 10 years
Source: Business Insider ·
Nate Soares says he stopped saving for retirement because he sees a better-than-50% chance of AI-driven human extinction within 10 years.
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Nate Soares has stopped saving for retirement because he fears AI could end humanity first.Courtesy of Nate SoaresNate Soares said he stopped adding to his 401(k) because AI may kill us within a decade.The MIRI president said humanity has a more than 50% chance of dying within a decade.Elon Musk said AI could make retirement savings irrelevant by creating an age of abundance.Saving for retirement is a bet on the future. Nate Soares, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, isn't so sure AI will let us get that far."I do not save for retirement right now. I have a 401(k) from when I worked at Google, but I haven't contributed for a decade," Soares told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson in a recent interview for Thompson's "The Most Interesting Thing in AI" series.Soares' decision reflects a grim view of the AI race."Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton and Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger have, respectively, put the odds of AI killing everyone within a decade at…