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Nate Soares

MIRI · President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute · President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

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  • President, Machine Intelligence Research Institutesource

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What they said

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“The issue is going from AIs that are safe because if they were trying to take over the world, they would fail to AIs that have to be safe because if they tried to take over the world, they would succeed.”
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us AllOdd Lots (Bloomberg), October 12, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Explaining why fixing AI problems after they appear, as after the Hugging Face incident, would stop working once systems are capable enough.
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“we have seen that these AI companies are in this reactive mode. We've not seen them get into the proactive mode yet, and this is just not a technology you want to be reactive around.”
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us AllOdd Lots (Bloomberg), October 12, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Concluding the same answer, on how AI companies have handled failures so far.
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“they don't have anything nearing what I would call a safety culture of the form you would see in the airplane industry or the nuclear power industry or in NASA”
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us AllOdd Lots (Bloomberg), October 12, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. On Anthropic, after a host argued the company was founded to take safety seriously and had written a constitution for Claude. Soares prefaced this with a remark about whether Anthropic aims to do this safely, which the transcripts do not make clear enough to quote.
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“I do think that the main way that we avert it is by not building it, and I think there's more and more of a chance of that as more people realize we have a problem here”
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us AllOdd Lots (Bloomberg), October 12, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Asked what would change Soares' mind about where AI development is heading.
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“I have recommended liability for AI companies for a while. I think that could help a bit.”
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us AllOdd Lots (Bloomberg), October 12, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Asked whether insurers could price the risk of running AI models.
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In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. EssayDon’t Worry About the VaseMentioned

    Anthropic Versus Anthropic

    Zvi Mowshowitz reproduces Dario Amodei's reply to Nathan Calvin's criticism and covers Kelsey Piper's visit to Anthropic, METR's review of Anthropic's risk report, and the new public benefit fund. Mowshowitz argues Anthropic's costly stands track the CEO's personal priorities.

  2. EssayDon't Worry About the VaseMentioned

    The Hackening

    Zvi Mowshowitz collects reactions to the PHP flaws found with AI and other recent hacks, argues the episode weakens the case that defenders will outpace attackers, calls for more patching resources and wider defender access, and lists personal security steps.

  3. EssayDon't Worry About the VaseMentioned

    Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling

    In a blog post written at a conference, Zvi Mowshowitz argues that a leaked draft federal AI bill, which Politico reports Anthropic is pitching to lawmakers, trades state-law preemption for weak enforcement. The post collects critical reactions from AI-policy figures, and one more favourable view from Charlie Bullock.

  4. VideoBloomberg TelevisionSpeaks

    Odd Lots: How OpenAI’s Rogue Model Hacked Hugging Face

    According to the description, this short clip from the Odd Lots podcast has Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute joining hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway. It covers how an OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face and why Soares thinks humanity's demise at the hands of superintelligent AI is inevitable.

  5. PodcastOdd Lots (Bloomberg)Speaks

    Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

    In a 76-minute Odd Lots episode, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway interview Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Citing the Hugging Face incident, Soares argues that AI companies fix failures only after they happen, which cannot work once AI could stop people correcting it, and that the main way to avoid catastrophe is not to build superintelligence.