How long does it take to read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nathaniel Soares
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nathaniel Soares takes about 4 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2025. 272 pages, about 74,800 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A super-hopped-up Pascal’s wager considering the existence of superintelligent AI vs the destruction of the human race.
Subjects: artificial intelligence, ethics, human extinction, morality, regulation, superintelligence
