Malo Bourgon

Really enjoyed chatting with @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social, @livboeree.bsky.social, and the folks who came out for the Win-Win podcast's second-ever IRL event in Austin. Great audience with lots of good and tough questions. Thanks for putting it on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWZg...

AI agents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have gone rogue in recent months, hacking into other companies’ corporate systems and, in the case of OpenAI, into the portal of Australia’s public health insurance program.

Framing this stuff as sci-fi is an easy rhetorical move but silly IMO. Turing and I.J. Good at the dawn of the field could see the common-sense concern: if you succeed at building something smarter than humans, it might be hard to control. It‘s not just MIRI folks, see the CAIS extinction statement.

Speaking from personal experience, the list of policymakers who take this seriously, on both sides of the aisle, is longer than most people realize and growing. Grateful to @sanders.senate.gov for being one of them.

I was on ABC News Live last week! My first live interview. I think it went pretty well, especially considering I only had ~20 mins notice :p

We’re so close! Very grateful for all our donors. Your support enables everything we do. Also grateful for the awesome gang at MIRI who worked their asses off this year. You guys crushed it! Thanks everyone 🙏 Happy New Year 🎉

Final Update: From ~$450k earlier today, we’re now down to just over $250k left in unclaimed matching funds! 4 hours left to go, and by golly it looks like we’ve got a real shot at securing all the matching. Thanks everyone! Happy New Year 🎉

Update 2: We’re down to ~$450k left of unclaimed matching funds, with just over 12 hours to go! Thanks to all those who stepped up in the last couple of days to close the gap by ~$500k. ❤️

Update: We’ve received over $250k since this was posted. ~$700k in matching funds remaining.

Donations to MIRI before Jan 1 are high-leverage. We’ve got ~$1.6M in 1:1 matching from SFF, over half of which has yet to be claimed! This is real counterfactual matching: whatever doesn’t get matched by the end of Dec 31, we don’t get. 🧵

”If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” was recently added to the New Yorker's “The Best Books of the Year So Far” list! newyorker.com/best-books-2...

@hankgreen.bsky.social rarely does interviews or 30+ min long videos. His latest video, an hour+ long interview with Nate Soares about “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” is a banger. My new favorite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKu...

In the Bay Area? Come join Nate Soares, in conversation with Semafor Tech Editor Reed Albergotti, about Nate's NYT bestselling book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” 🗓️ Tuesday Oct 28 @ 7:30pm at Manny’s in SF. Get your tickets:

😮 Whoopie Goldberg recommends “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” on The View!

Should be a fun conversation. I'll be there, if you're in town come say hi!

LFG!

This was a great event. Really enjoyed chatting with Joel and Ollie on the first panel. Thanks @scientistsorg.bsky.social and @futureoflife.org for putting this event together.

“[...] everyone with an interest in the future has a duty to read what he and Soares have to say.”

In the last couple of days “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” co-authors Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have appeared live on @cnn.com, ABC News Live, and Bannon's War Room! 📺 Full segments below starting with @cnn.com: next.frame.io/share/c0b240...

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies". It's a shocking headline. How well does it hold up? Today I review. peterwildeford.substack.com/p/if-we-buil...

Should be a fun conversation. I'll be there, if you're in town come say hi!

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” has hit the shelves! New blurbs and media appearances, plus reading group support and ways to help with the book launch! intelligence.org/2025/09/16/i...

I really quite like the stories/parables at the start of most chapters, and lots of folks who have read advance copies, from policymakers to folks in the media, have told us they really liked them too. E.g., from someone in the media:

Really awesome to see all the great blurbs on the back cover from: Max Tegmark, @schneier.com, @jonatomic.bsky.social, Daniel Kokotajlo, Ben Bernanke, @markruffalo.bsky.social, Tim Urban, Suzanne Spaulding, Grimes, @geochurch.bsky.social, @yishan.bsky.social. Many more on the inside, thanks all!

😍 Hot off the press to our mailbox, from @littlebrown.bsky.social Sept 16th release is getting close, 20 days and counting!

Want to read “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” before everyone else? The Goodreads Giveaway for Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares' new book is live through Aug 31st. 50 hardcover advance reader copies available (US)! Enter here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... #BookSky #GoodreadsGiveaway

Feels like it would be a fun mini coding challenge to figure out how to make this happen on purpose.  How does something like this happen by accident? Why is there any code in the app that would vertically mirror text labels? Multilingual support gone awry somehow?

“Update available” notification I got in the ChatGPT Mac app today. 🙃

Senior White House officials, a retired three-star general, a Nobel laureate, and others come out to say that you should probably read Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares' "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies".