"The billboard shows the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All" and the book's Sept. 16 publication date. The book's introduction has its thesis claim: "If any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI, then everyone, everywhere on Earth, will die.""
"He founded the precursor to MIRI in 2000, helping to propagate the idea that superintelligent AI could soon exist. And Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey reported that in 2010, Yudkowsky introduced key AI researcher Demis Hassabis to financier Peter Thiel, leading to Thiel's $2.25 million investment in Hassabis' nascent DeepMind startup - a team now at the core of Google's AI development."
Billboards along Interstate 80 in San Francisco advertised a book that frames artificial intelligence as an extinction-level threat. The book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares of MIRI, claims that any group building superintelligence with current methods would kill everyone on Earth. Yudkowsky is a prominent figure in the AI doom movement and previously founded MIRI's precursor in 2000, promoting the possibility of near-term superintelligence. He played a role in introducing Demis Hassabis to Peter Thiel, which led to Thiel's $2.25 million investment in DeepMind, now central to Google's AI efforts.
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