Books: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI

Yudkowsky Eliezer, Soares Nate, 2025. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI. PB: The Bodley Head, 978-1847928924. 272. 17.99. ![Graphic][1] Let’s be honest, there’s a lot on: the enshittification of the NHS and general practice; a recent pandemic; war in Europe; devastation in Gaza; and authoritarianism on the march. All of which is just foreground to the climate change emergency that we can scarcely be said to be addressing. We may be living in interesting times but ‘interesting’ is doing some heavy lifting and, for many, encompasses an existential angst that is not the easiest to shake off. This book will not help with that. The simple message from the authors is obvious from the title and it almost brings a blush to write it as it seems so, well, melodramatic. But here it is: a superintelligent AI is going to kill us all. Unless we do something about it. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares lay out the case and are grimly persuasive. Most of this … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif