Evaluator · round one
President of MIRI; co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies; SFF recommender.
$5.29M of Nate's recommendations funded
$720k granted through Nate's order
Nate Soares is President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), the oldest research organization focused on the risks of smarter-than-human AI, where he has set the institute's research and strategy for over a decade. Before MIRI he was a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and then a software engineer at Microsoft and Google, which he left in 2014 to work on AI alignment full time. He holds a BS in computer science and economics from George Washington University. His research includes foundational work on corrigibility (AI systems that accept correction and shutdown) and decision theory.
Nate has years of experience judging which AI-safety projects deserve funding. He served as a Recommender in the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2025 S-Process round, helping allocate millions of dollars of Jaan Tallinn's philanthropy, and is one of SFF's Speculation Granters, who make fast, early-stage grants to promising projects.
In 2025 he co-authored the New York Times bestseller If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Since then he has become one of the most prominent voices on AI risk, appearing on the Tucker Carlson Show, The Diary of a CEO, Fox News, the BBC, CNBC, and Nate Silver's Risky Business, and has been profiled in Fortune.
