{"id":236556,"date":"2026-05-05T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-best-selling-book-is-freaking-out-national-security-advisors"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:10:08","slug":"this-best-selling-book-is-freaking-out-national-security-advisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-best-selling-book-is-freaking-out-national-security-advisors","title":{"rendered":"This best-selling book is freaking out national security advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nl7-bRFSZBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our second video just won a Webby\u2019s People\u2019s Voice Award! \u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3OVCA1i\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3OVCA1i<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Way more thoughts, our curated newsletter, and free books (until we run out) \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/iabied\/\">https:\/\/80000hours.org\/iabied\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we build something vastly smarter than us, with goals we don\u2019t share and without knowing how to control it, we lose. That\u2019s the core claim in the book, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s all that controversial. The real question is whether that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n<p>If this matters to you, subscribe to AI in Context. We\u2019re working through it too.<\/p>\n<p>Correction: at 14:18 I say \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second video just won a Webby\u2019s People\u2019s Voice Award! \u2192 http:\/\/bit.ly\/3OVCA1i. Way more thoughts, our curated newsletter, and free books (until we run out) \u2192 https:\/\/80000hours.org\/iabied\/ If we build something vastly smarter than us, with goals we don\u2019t share and without knowing how to control it, we lose. That\u2019s the core claim in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}