If Anything Is Built, Everyone Dies

This book presents a forceful argument that the development of powerful AI systems poses a severe existential threat to humanity and calls for urgent measures to mitigate that risk.

Drawing on perspectives from AI alignment research, it emphasizes the potential for rapid, hard-to-control intelligence growth and the need for systemic safeguards.

The authors critique complacency and outline why existing approaches may be insufficient to ensure AI behaves in accordance with human values.

The work aims to shift public and expert attention toward the unique, high-stakes challenges of advanced AI and to provoke policy and research responses.

It has been influential in raising awareness and debate about AI extinction scenarios.