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Mechanize Inc.

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A response to Yudkowsky and Soares's 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'. Their AI doom argument lacks empirical support.

Unfalsifiable stories of doom | Mechanize, Inc. Unfalsifiable stories of doom Matthew Barnett, Ege Erdil, Tamay Besiroglu November 25, 2025 Our critics tell us that our work will destroy the world. We want to engage with these critics, but there is no standard argument to respond to, no single text that unifies the AI safety community. Nonetheless, while this community lacks a central unifying argument, it does have a central figure: Eliezer Yudkowsky. Moreover, Yudkowsky, along with his colleague Nate Soares (hereafter Y&S), have recently published a book . This new book comes closer than any

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