# Nate Soares

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/nate-soares/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Nate Soares (President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute) talking, from an interview on Odd Lots published Oct 12, 2026.

- Role: President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- About: Leads the Machine Intelligence Research Institute; co-wrote the 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
- On X: https://x.com/So8res

## What Nate Soares said

- [Automated supply chains could make AI self-sufficient](https://realalpha.app/s/automated-supply-chains-could-make-ai-self-sufficient/)
  Odd Lots · Oct 12, 2026 · 8 min
  > “Because building a fully automated economy is just the plan.” — Nate Soares · [53:22](https://realalpha.app/v/vD4TyKot82Q/?t=3202)
- [A smarter AI is not a verifiable alignment plan](https://realalpha.app/s/a-smarter-ai-is-not-a-verifiable-alignment-plan/)
  Odd Lots · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min
  > “this is not what a real engineering plan sounds like.” — Nate Soares · [1:07:17](https://realalpha.app/v/vD4TyKot82Q/?t=4037)
- [Public actuaries could put a price on catastrophic AI risk](https://realalpha.app/s/public-actuaries-could-put-a-price-on-catastrophic-ai-risk/)
  Odd Lots · Oct 12, 2026 · 3 min
  > “open AI, you need to pay us a quadrillion dollars this year to continue this research.” — Nate Soares · [47:40](https://realalpha.app/v/vD4TyKot82Q/?t=2860)

## The episode

- [Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All | Odd Lots](https://realalpha.app/v/vD4TyKot82Q/) · Odd Lots · Oct 12, 2026