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Why Save for Retirement When the Robots Will Kill You First?

The gospel of AI doom - and the people building the apocalypse they warn about. Your 401(k) won’t survive the singularity or so the P-Doomer's claim.

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Kara Cardinale
Aug 27, 2025
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Nick Soares does not have a retirement plan. Not because he’s broke, but because planning for retirement is an exercise in optimism bordering on delusion. Soares, President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), is convinced the world won’t last long enough for him to spend his golden years anywhere other than in a data centre graveyard.

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