Photo: Cover of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'.

By Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The case against superintelligent AI

By Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

by John Lampen 5th December 2025

Friends World Committee for Consultation recently issued a statement about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is useful, but I was surprised to find no reference to the machines which can themselves design, build and programme the next generation of still more complex intelligences – sometimes called Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI).