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Émile P. Torres (Realtime Techpocalypse, October 19, 2025) surveys views Eliezer Yudkowsky has expressed over the years, following Torres's Truthdig review of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, which argues the book is TESCREAL advocacy. A critical perspective piece.
Matt Mikalatos explains TESCREAL, the term coined by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres for a bundle of ideologies — transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism — that he describes as billionaires and technologists pushing personal scientific projects while accepting fatal risks to people as the price of an "existential" need to advance the technology.
DAIR Institute project page on the TESCREAL bundle — the set of utopian ideologies (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, longtermism) the institute links to eugenics and to Silicon Valley's push for AGI.
Open-access paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres (First Monday, April 2024) arguing that the drive to build AGI is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition, and urging researchers to work on defined tasks that can be tested for safety.
Émile P. Torres's weekly newsletter examining the ideologies driving Silicon Valley — effective altruism, longtermism, TESCREAL, and the race to build artificial superintelligence — from a critical, insider-turned-skeptic perspective.
From the site: Stop doomscrolling and just read this! Click to read Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter, by Émile P. Torres, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
A long-form critical essay by Émile P. Torres arguing that the effective altruism movement has become a cult-like ideology with its own doctrines, charismatic leaders, jargon and social controls — and that this matters for how AI is being developed.
From the site: Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
The academic and popular-writing home page of philosopher Émile P. Torres, covering existential risk, the history of human-extinction thought, and critical work on TESCREAL ideologies in Silicon Valley.
