TAC Right Now: Nate Soares Warns of Superintelligent AI 75%
By The American Conservative0%
7/10/2026, 4:12:56 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 41.4% saturation with 29 hits. Analysis detected 58 faulty-reasoning hits from 70 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.7% and a BS Rank of 75% (3,463 of 13,821 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.90% of the article peer group.
TAC Correspondent Harrison Berger and Associate Editor Joseph Addington speak with Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Soares argues that the leading AI companies are on track to build machines smarter than any human across all mental tasks, and that goal, if achieved, likely ends humanity.
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