This best-selling book is freaking out national security advisors

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on Sep 05, 2026

Ezekiel Diet Note: It’s this problem that leads me to believe God will have to intervene to stop these psychopaths. But when you also add pending world war, 5 billion vaccinated humans dying slowly, all other forms of democide eugenics, global financial collapse, pending Noahide Laws and Christian persecution, pending fake alien invasion, and criminal world leaders out-of-control it seems clear to me we have another Babylon tower moment that requires God’s intervention.

Added August 2026: If you’re wondering why a swarm of 1200 rogue OpenAI agents took over OpenAI’s computer infrastructure and launched a full-scale cyberattack on another company just to increase its score on an evaluation… this might help.

(Or you can check out this 75-second explainer from our friend @RobertMilesAI⁩: • Did ChatGPT Just Commit a Felony? )

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If we build something vastly smarter than us, with goals we don’t share and without knowing how to control it, we lose. That’s the core claim in the book, and I don’t think it’s all that controversial. The real question is whether that’s where we’re headed.

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Key Topics: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, AI safety, recursive self-improvement / self-improving AI, AI alignment, human extinction, existential risk.

Correction: at 14:18 I say “Less than a week after that post, a single hacker used that same AI model to hack the Mexican government.” I should have said “Less than a week after that post, news broke that a single hacker used Claude to hack the Mexican government.” The story broke February 24th, but the hacking itself took place in December ’25 and January ’26, before Opus 4.6 was released. That means the attacker must have carried out this attack using a slightly less advanced version of Claude than Opus 4.6, the one that found 500 zero-day vulnerabilities. Thanks to Carl at ‪@InternetOfBugs‬ for pointing out this error.

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00:00 Introduction
01:30 01. A Powerful Idea
05:16 02. Grown, Not Crafted
07:27 Alien Minds
10:05 03. A New Type of Mind
12:49 04. Learning to Want
15:35 05. Scheming
18:17 06. You Don’t Get What You Train For
21:56 07. Exfiltration
26:04 08. Instrumental Convergence
29:49 09. The Bioweapon
31:52 10. Extinction
34:19 11. A Cursed Problem?
38:08 12. Along For the Ride
41:06 13. What Are You Supposed to Do?
42:51 Credits

Host / Aric Floyd
Writers / Aric Floyd, Chana Messinger
Director / Phoebe Brooks
Producers / Chana Messinger, Phoebe Brooks
Production Coordinator / Sage Bergerson
Director of Photography / Nick Dolph
Gaffer / Andy Haney
Sound Recordist / David Jenkins
Spark / Ryan Tam
Editors / Zach Joseph, Phoebe Brooks
Graphics & Animation / Daniel Recinto, Mila Graf
Graphic Design / Nik Mastroddi, Ailbhe Treacy

Based on “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares.

See our landing page for links to work by our crew.

Special thanks to Dean Ball, Joe Carlsmith, Representative Bill Foster, Dwarkesh Patel, and Nate Soares for their interviews, and Steven Adler and Alex Lawsen for their technical advising.

And thanks to Bella Forristal, Arden Koehler, Clarissa Lam, Petr Lebedev, Gaetan Selle, Drew Spartz, Rob Wiblin, Siliconversations, Ciel Creative Space and Lighthaven Recording Studio.

Musicbed: MB013J3TISEDSZM, MB01XFG5DRCE6GS

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