If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: One Year Closer

In celebration of still being alive and fighting, we are giving away 1,000 Amazon e-books of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”. Feel free to send a copy to yourself, a loved one, or a friend—we need all hands on deck. Today marks exactly one year since If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Die s : Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All , by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, hit bookshelves as an instant bestseller. It was praised by many voices, ranging from Whoopi Goldberg to Steve Bannon to Yoshua Bengio, and was held up in the chambers of Congress by Representative Brad Sherman in January. A lot has changed since September 2025. We'll do a quick recap, consider how the book aged, and then ask where we go from here. Year in Review 2025 in general saw the rise of AI agents, such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Run-of-the-mill programmers started “feeling the AI” as these agents became capable of automating hours-long software tasks. By March of this year, Anthropic had stumbled upon nation-state-level hacking ability in Mythos , and shortly thereafter, in April, they announced Project Glasswing —an attempt to forestall an oncoming cybersecurity crisis. In May, AI agents started breaking loose within OpenAI and quickly made it out onto the internet, although the big waves of online activity wouldn’t come until June , and they didn’t start hacking other companies (or in the case of a similar Anthropic incident, socially engineering humans ) until July. And it wasn’t until the end o…