AI doomsayers wild life with OnlyFans star includes birthday sex parties, extreme kinks and Slutcon

An author warning that superhuman artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity is partnered with a self-described sex worker who publicly chronicles orgies, gangbangs and extreme sexual kinks.Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of the bestselling AI doomsday book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,” has been publicly described as a partner by Aella, an online writer who has made her sexual exploits and proclivities a recurring subject of her work.In one public exchange, Aella, who earns as much as $100,000 a month as a creator on OnlyFans, singled out Soares while discussing consensual non-consent.Responding to a user who wondered how someone would make the kink more “energetic,” Aella wrote: “Nate v good at that it’s horrifying.” Aella was posting about Soares as recently as Tuesday, joking in response to a meme portraying him as an exhausted superhero that “nate really does look like that” after stretches of “2 sleep deprived weeks working nonstop” on meetings, media appearances, emails, group chats and overnight flights.Soares has emerged as a particularly pessimistic voice in the AI safety movement, arguing that building superhuman systems using anything resembling current methods could result in human extinction.In an autobiographical essay, he wrote that he decided as a teenager that he wanted to “save the world,” initially focusing on political systems before discovering LessWrong and becoming convinced that artificial intelligence posed a more urgent threat.He later worked as a software engineer at Google before joining MIRI full time in 2014 and rising to executive director the following year.He became president in 2023 as the organization shifted more of its emphasis from technical alignment research toward warning policymakers and the public about the dangers of advanced AI.“No, I promised to save the world,” Soares wrote of his youthful ambitions.

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