TAC Right Now: Nate Soares Warns of Superintelligent AI ⁠79%

By The American Conservative⁠26%

7/10/2026, 9:12:56 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 54.3% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 283 faulty-reasoning hits from 70 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠79% (4,610 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.90% of the article peer group.

TAC Correspondent Harrison Berger and Associate Editor Joseph Addington speak with Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky. 
Soares argues that the leading AI companies are on track to build machines smarter than any human across all mental tasks, and that goal, if achieved, likely ends humanity. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 8.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.4%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 41.4%The American Conservative: 9.1%The American Conservative: 3.2%Overconfidence Bias41.4%This article: 12.9%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 8.1%Framing Effect12.9%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 41.4%The American Conservative: 18.1%The American Conservative: 2.7%Pessimism Bias41.4%This article: 54.3%The American Conservative: 2.8%The American Conservative: 10.6%Negativity Bias54.3%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 45.7%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.5%Halo Effect45.7%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 12.9%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.6%Primacy Effect12.9%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 45.7%The American Conservative: 10.0%The American Conservative: 4.3%Appeal to Authority45.7%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 9.1%The American Conservative: 3.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 41.4%The American Conservative: 9.1%The American Conservative: 2.4%Slippery Slope41.4%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 41.4%The American Conservative: 9.1%The American Conservative: 10.3%Hasty Generalization41.4%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 54.3%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion54.3%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 4.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.9%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.5%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 3.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 12.9%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 17.3%Biased Writer Voice12.9%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 2.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 3.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

70 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker41%attributed speech41writer words
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Writer's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 0.0% coverageNate Soares • 29 words • 0.0% coverage
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Nate Soares

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29 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice-22.0 ptsWriter: 22.0%Nate Soares: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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