Google eng is sure AI will destroy humanity he's stopped saving for retirement

Nate Soares, a former Google and Microsoft engineer and critic of current AI safety standards through the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, said on the "The Most Interesting Thing in AI" podcast that he no longer contributes to retirement savings, citing a 401(k) from his Google years he hasn't added to in a decade. He put the odds of no humans remaining in ten years, assuming minimal preventative action, at over 50%, and argued nation states should treat potential rogue superintelligent AI as at least on par with nuclear weapons, which he called less dangerous.