Ex-Google Engineer Quits Saving for Retirement over Chilling AI Apocalypse Prediction

A former Google AI expert is so convinced artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity that he’s stopped saving for retirement.

Machine learning researcher Nate Soares, who has worked as a software engineer at Google and Microsoft, said in a recent podcast episode with the CEO of The Atlantic that AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade.

Soares pegs the possibility of AI-driven extinction at over 50 percent over the next ten years.

“I guess right now it looks like we probably don’t have a decade on the clock,” Soares continued, adding that it’s “more than 50% that we don’t have a decade at this point.”

A decade ago, he said he stopped putting money toward his retirement, driven by this belief.

“I do not save for retirement now,” Soares said. “I have a 401K from when I worked at Google, but I haven’t contributed to it for like a decade.” (Read more from “Ex-Google Engineer Quits Saving for Retirement over Chilling AI Apocalypse Prediction” HERE)