Doom Debates

Q&A: Watch Me DEBATE Listeners — AGI by Next Year, Evolution vs Engineering, Yudkowsky, and more!

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AGI timelines, offense/defense balance, evolution vs engineering, how to lower P(Doom), Eliezer Yudkowksy, and much more!Timestamps:00:00 Trailer03:10...

DOOMER vs. BUILDER — AI Doom Debate with Devin Elliot, Software Engineer & Retired Pro Snowboarder

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Devin Elliot is a former pro snowboarder turned software engineer who has logged thousands of hours building AI systems. His P(Doom) is a flat ⚫. He...

PhD AI Researcher Says P(Doom) is TINY — Debate with Michael Timothy Bennett

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Michael Timothy Bennett, Ph.D, is an award-winning young researcher who has developed a new formal framework for understanding intelligence. He ha...

Nobel Prizewinner SWAYED by My AI Doom Argument — Prof. Michael Levitt, Stanford University

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My guest today achieved something EXTREMELY rare and impressive: Coming onto my show with an AI optimist position, then admitting he hadn’t thought ...

Facing AI Doom, Lessons from Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) — Michael Ellsberg

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Ellsberg, son of the legendary Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, joins me to discuss the chilling parallels between his father’s nucle...

Max Tegmark vs. Dean Ball: Should We BAN Superintelligence?

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today's Debate: Should we ban the development of artificial superintelligence until scientists agree it is safe and controllable?Arguing FOR banning s...

The AI Corrigibility Debate: MIRI Researchers Max Harms vs. Jeremy Gillen

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Max Harms and Jeremy Gillen are current and former MIRI researchers who both see superintelligent AI as an imminent extinction threat.But they disagre...

These Effective Altruists Betrayed Me — Holly Elmore, PauseAI US Executive Director

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Holly Elmore leads protests against frontier AI labs, and that work has strained some of her closest relationships in the AI-safety community.She says...

DEBATE: Is AGI Really Decades Away? | Ex-MIRI Researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen vs. Liron Shapira

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sparks fly in the finale of my series with ex-MIRI researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen as we debate his AGI timelines.Tsvi is a champion of using germline e...

Liron Debunks The Most Common “AI Won't Kill Us" Arguments

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m sharing my AI doom interview on Donal O’Doherty’s podcast.I lay out the case for having a 50% p(doom). Then Donal plays devil’s advo...

Why AI Alignment Is 0% Solved — Ex-MIRI Researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tsvi Benson-Tilsen spent seven years tackling the alignment problem at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Now he delivers a sobering ...

Eben Pagan (aka David DeAngelo) Interviews Liron — Why 50% Chance AI Kills Everyone by 2050

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m excited to share my recent AI doom interview with Eben Pagan, better known to many by his pen name David DeAngelo!For an entire generation of me...

Former MIRI Researcher Solving AI Alignment by Engineering Smarter Human Babies

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen is championing an audacious path to prevent AI doom: engineering s...

Robert Wright Interrogates the Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Doom Position

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I'm sharing my interview on Robert Wright's Nonzero Podcast where we unpack Eliezer Yudkowsky's AI doom arguments from his bestselling book, "If...

Climate Change Is Stupidly EASY To Stop — Andrew Song, Cofounder of Make Sunsets

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m taking a rare break from AI doom to cover the dumbest kind of doom humanity has ever created for itself: climate change. We’re talking a...

David Deutschian vs. Eliezer Yudkowskian Debate: Will AGI Cooperate With Humanity? — With Brett Hall

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve been puzzled by David Deutsch’s AI claims for years. Today I finally had the chance to hash it out: Brett Hall, one of the foremost educators...

Debating People On The Street About AI Doom

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We took Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’s new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, on the streets to see what regular people think.Do people ...

Wes & Dylan Join Doom Debates — Violent Robots, Eliezer Yudkowsky, & Who Has the HIGHEST P(Doom)?!

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Doom Debates + Wes Roth + Dylan Curious crossover episode!Wes & Dylan’s host a popular YouTube AI news show that’s better than main...

The Merch Store Is Open For Business!

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m excited to announce the launch of Doom Hut, the official Doom Debates merch store!This isn’t just another merch drop. It’s a way to spread a...

Are We A Circular Firing Squad? — with Holly Elmore, Executive Director of PauseAI US

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eliezer Yudkowsky can warn humankind that If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and get on the New York Times bestseller list, but he won’t get upvoted...

Ex-OpenAI CEO Says AI Labs Are Making a HUGE Mistake — Emmett Shear

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ex-Twitch Founder and OpenAI Interim CEO Emmett Shear is one of the rare established tech leaders to lend his name and credibility to Eliezer Yudkowsk...

Donate to Doom Debates — YOU can meaningfully contribute to lowering AI x-risk!

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ATTENTION DOOM DEBATES LISTENERS:We interrupt our usual programming to request that you consider supporting the show.Do you want your family, children...

Liv Boeree Has a Strategy to Stop the AI Death Race

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Science communicator and poker champion Liv Boeree has been concerned about the existential risk of AI for nearly a decade.In this conversation from m...

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” Party — Max Tegmark, Liv Boeree, Emmett Shear, Gary Marcus, Rob Miles & more!

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares just launched their world-changing book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. PLEASE BUY YOUR COPY NOW!!!We had an un...

Max Tegmark Says It's Time To Protest Against AI Companies

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Max Tegmark is an MIT physics professor, science communicator, best-selling author, and the President and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. ...

Eliezer Yudkowsky — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is Monday, September 15th and my interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky has dropped!!!👉 WATCH NOW 👈We had a very unique 2.5-hour discussion coverin...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Eliezer Yudkowsky interview premieres tomorrow!

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Eliezer Yudkowsky interview premiere is tomorrow (Mon Sep 15) at 9am PT!!!👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQtpSQmMNP0 👈I can't believe it...

How AI Kills Everyone on the Planet in 10 Years — Liron on The Jona Ragogna Podcast

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special cross-post from Jona Ragogna’s channel, I'm interviewed about why superintelligent AI poses an imminent extinction threat, and how A...

Get ready for LAUNCH WEEK!!! “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ladies and gentlemen, we are days away from the long-awaited release of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's new book, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone...

Tech CTO Has 99.999% P(Doom) — “This is my bugout house” — Louis Berman, AI X-Risk Activist

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Louis Berman is a polymath who brings unique credibility to AI doom discussions. He's been coding AI for 25 years, served as CTO of major tech compani...

Rob Miles, Top AI Safety Educator: Humanity Isn’t Ready for Superintelligence!

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Miles is the most popular AI safety educator on YouTube, with millions of views across his videos explaining AI alignment to general audiences. He...

Debate with Vitalik Buterin — Will “d/acc” Protect Humanity from Superintelligent AI?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vitalik Buterin is the founder of Ethereum, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, currently valued at around $500 billion. But beyo...

Why I'm Scared GPT-9 Will Murder Me — Liron on Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m sharing my interview on Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast from last May. Rob is an especially sharp interviewer who doesn't just nod along...

The Man Who Might SOLVE AI Alignment — Dr. Steven Byrnes, AGI Safety Researcher @ Astera Institute

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Steven Byrnes, UC Berkeley physics PhD and Harvard physics postdoc, is an AI safety researcher at the Astera Institute and one of the most rigorou...

Top Professor Condemns AGI Development: “It’s Frankly Evil” — Geoffrey Miller

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, bestselling author, and one of the world's leading experts on signali...

Zuck’s Superintelligence Agenda is a SCANDAL | Warning Shots EP1

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m doing a new weekly show on the AI Risk Network called Warning Shots. Check it out!I’m only cross-posting the first episode here on Doom Debate...

Rationalist Podcasts Unite! — The Bayesian Conspiracy ⨉ Doom Debates Crossover

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eneasz Brodski and Steven Zuber host the Bayesian Conspiracy podcast, which has been running for nine years and covers rationalist topics from AI safe...

His P(Doom) Doubles At The End — AI Safety Debate with Liam Robins, GWU Sophomore

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liam Robins is a math major at George Washington University who's diving deep into AI policy and rationalist thinking.In Part 1, we explored how AI is...

AI Won't Save Your Job — Liron Reacts to Replit CEO Amjad Masad

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amjad Masad is the founder and CEO of Replit, a full-featured AI-powered software development platform whose revenue reportedly just shot up from $10M...

Every Student is CHEATING with AI — College in the AGI Era (feat. Sophomore Liam Robins)

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liam Robins is a math major at George Washington University who recently had his own "AGI awakening" after reading Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational...

Carl Feynman, AI Engineer & Son of Richard Feynman, Says Building AGI Likely Means Human EXTINCTION!

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carl Feynman got his Master’s in Computer Science and B.S. in Philosophy from MIT, followed by a four-decade career in AI engineering.He’s known E...

Richard Hanania vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. His work has been praised by Vice President JD Vance, T...

Emmett Shear (OpenAI Ex-Interim-CEO)'s New “Softmax” AI Alignment Plan — Is It Legit?

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emmett Shear is the cofounder and ex-CEO of Twitch, ex-interim-CEO of OpenAI, and a former Y Combinator partner. He recently announced Softmax, a new ...

Will AI Have a Moral Compass? — Debate with Scott Sumner, Author of The Money Illusion

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Scott Sumner is a well-known macroeconomist who spent more than 30 years teaching at Bentley University, and now holds an Emeritus Chair in mone...

Searle's Chinese Room is DUMB — It's Just Slow-Motion Intelligence

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Searle's "Chinese Room argument" has been called one of the most famous thought experiments of the 20th century. It's still frequently cited toda...

Doom Debates Live @ Manifest 2025 — Liron vs. Everyone

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s see where the attendees of Manifest 2025 get off the Doom Train, and whether I can convince them to stay on and ride with me to the end of the...

Poking holes in the AI doom argument — 83 stops where you could get off the “Doom Train”

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I often talk about the “Doom Train”, the series of claims and arguments involved in concluding that P(Doom) from artificial superintelligence is h...

Q&A: Ilya's AGI Doomsday Bunker, Veo 3 is Westworld, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and much more!

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ilya’s doom bunker, proof of humanity, the doomsday argument, CAIS firing John Sherman, Bayesian networks, Westworld, AI consciousness, Eliezer’s ...

This $85M-Backed Founder Claims Open Source AGI is Safe — Debate with Himanshu Tyagi

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a professor of engineering at the Indian Institute of Science and the co-founder of Sentient, an open-source AI platform that ra...

Emergency Episode: Center for AI Safety Chickens Out

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My friend John from the AI X-Risk Network podcast got hired by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) two weeks ago.Today I suddenly learned he’s been fire...

Gary Marcus vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Gary Marcus is a scientist, bestselling author and entrepreneur, well known as one of the most influential voices in AI. He is Professor Emeritu...

Mike Israetel vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Dr. Mike Israetel, renowned exercise scientist and social media personality, and more recently a low-P(doom) AI futurist, graciously offered to deb...

Doom Scenario: Human-Level AI Can't Control Smarter AI

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I want to be transparent about how I’ve updated my mainline AI doom scenario in light of safe & useful LLMs. So here’s where I’m at…00:00 Intr...

The Most Likely AI Doom Scenario — with Jim Babcock, LessWrong Team

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the most likely (“mainline”) AI doom scenario? How does the existence of LLMs update the original Yudkowskian version? I invited my frien...

AI Could Give Humans MORE Control — Ozzie Gooen

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ozzie Gooen is the founder of the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI), a nonprofit building software tools for forecasting and policy ana...

Top AI Professor Has 85% P(Doom) — David Duvenaud, Fmr. Anthropic Safety Team Lead

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Duvenaud is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, co-director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Socie...

“AI 2027” — Top Superforecaster's Imminent Doom Scenario

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI 2027, a bombshell new paper by the AI Futures Project, is a highly plausible scenario of the next few years of AI progress. I like this paper so mu...

Top Economist Sees AI Doom Coming — Dr. Peter Berezin, BCA Research

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Peter Berezin is the Chief Global Strategist and Director of Research at BCA Research, the largest Canadian investment research firm. He’s known...

AI News: GPT-4o Images, AI Unemployment, Emmett Shear's New Safety Org — with Nathan Labenz

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nathan Labenz, host of The Cognitive Revolution, joins me for an AI news & social media roundup!00:00 Introducing Nate05:18 What’s Your P(Doom)™23...

How an AI Doomer Sees The World — Liron on The Human Podcast

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special cross-posted episode of Doom Debates, originally posted here on The Human Podcast, we cover a wide range of topics including the defin...

Gödel's Theorem Says Intelligence ≠ Power? AI Doom Debate with Alexander Campbell

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Campbell claims that having superhuman intelligence doesn’t necessarily translate into having vast power, and that Gödel's Incompleteness...

Alignment is EASY and Roko's Basilisk is GOOD?!

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Roko Mijic has been an active member of the LessWrong and AI safety community since 2008. He’s best known for “Roko’s Basilisk”, a thought exp...

Roger Penrose is WRONG about Gödel's Theorem and AI Consciousness

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Roger Penrose is a mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science, and Nobel Laureate in Physics.His famous body of work includes P...

We Found AI's Preferences — What David Shapiro MISSED in this bombshell Center for AI Safety paper

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for AI Safety just dropped a fascinating paper — they discovered that today’s AIs like GPT-4 and Claude have preferences! As in, cohere...

Does AI Competition = AI Alignment? Debate with Gil Mark

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

My friend Gil Mark, who leads generative AI products at LinkedIn, thinks competition among superintelligent AIs will lead to a good outcome for humani...

Toy Model of the AI Control Problem

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why does the simplest AI imaginable, when you ask it to help you push a box around a grid, suddenly want you to die?AI doomers are often misconstrued ...

Superintelligent AI vs. Real-World Engineering | Liron Reacts to Bryan Cantrill

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Cantrill, co-founder of Oxide Computer, says in his talk that engineering in the physical world is too complex for any AI to do it better than t...

2,500 Subscribers Live Q&A Recording

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks for everyone who participated in the live Q&A on Friday!The topics covered include advice for computer science students, working in AI trustwor...

AI Twitter Beefs #3: Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Yann LeCun, Eliezer Yudkowsky & More!

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s time for AI Twitter Beefs #3:00:00 Introduction01:27 Marc Andreessen vs. Sam Altman09:15 Mark Zuckerberg35:40 Martin Casado47:26 Gary Marcus vs...

Effective Altruism Debate with Jonas Sota

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Effective Altruism has been a controversial topic on social media, so today my guest and I are going to settle the question once and for all: Is it go...

God vs. AI Doom: Debate with Bentham's Bulldog

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Adelstein, better known as Bentham’s Bulldog on Substack, is a philosophy major at the University of Michigan and an up & coming public inte...

Debate with a former OpenAI Research Team Lead — Prof. Kenneth Stanley

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Kenneth Stanley is a former Research Science Manager at OpenAI leading the Open-Endedness Team in 2020-2022. Before that, he was a Professor of ...

OpenAI o3 and Claude Alignment Faking — How doomed are we?

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just announced o3 and smashed a bunch of benchmarks (ARC-AGI, SWE-bench, FrontierMath)!A new Anthropic and Redwood Research paper says Claude i...

AI Will Kill Us All — Liron Shapira on The Flares

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liron was interview by Gaëtan Selle on @the-flares about AI doom.Cross-posted from their channel with permission.Original source: https://w...

Roon vs. Liron: AI Doom Debate

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Roon is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI. He’s a highly respected voice on tech Twitter, despite being a pseudonymous cartoon avatar accoun...

Scott Aaronson Makes Me Think OpenAI's “Safety” Is Fake, Clueless, Reckless and Insane

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m reacting to the recent Scott Aaronson interview on the Win-Win podcast with Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov.Prof. Aaronson is the Director of...

Liron Reacts to Subbarao Kambhampati on Machine Learning Street Talk

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m reacting to a July 2024 interview that Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati did on Machine Learning Street Talk.Rao is a Professor of Computer Scien...

This Yudkowskian Has A 99.999% P(Doom)

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Doom Debates, I discuss AI existential risks with my pseudonymous guest Nethys.Nethy shares his journey into AI risk awareness, inf...

Cosmology, AI Doom, and the Future of Humanity with Fraser Cain

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, co-host of Astronomy Cast, a popular YouTuber about all things space, and guess what… he has a high ...

AI Doom Debate: Vaden Masrani & Ben Chugg vs. Liron Shapira

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg, hosts of the Increments Podcast, are back for a Part II! This time we’re going straight to debating my favorite topic, ...

Andrew Critch vs. Liron Shapira: Will AI Extinction Be Fast Or Slow?

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Andrew Critch is the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a former Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MI...

AI Twitter Beefs #2: Yann LeCun, David Deutsch, Tyler Cowen, Jack Clark, Beff Jezos, Samuel Hammond vs. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Geoffrey Hinton, Carl Feynman

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s time for AI Twitter Beefs #2:00:42 Jack Clark (Anthropic) vs. Holly Elmore (PauseAI US)11:02 Beff Jezos vs. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Carl Feynman18:1...

Is P(Doom) Meaningful? Epistemology Debate with Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg, hosts of the Increments Podcast, are joining me to debate Bayesian vs. Popperian epistemology.I’m on the Bayesian side,...

15-Minute Intro to AI Doom

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our top researchers and industry leaders have been warning us that superintelligent AI may cause human extinction in the next decade.If you haven't be...

Lee Cronin vs. Liron Shapira: AI Doom Debate

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His research aims to understand how life might arise from non-living m...

Ben Horowitz says nuclear proliferation is GOOD? I disagree.

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Horowitz, cofounder and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), says nuclear proliferation is good.I was shocked because I thought we all a...

“AI Snake Oil” Prof. Arvind Narayanan Can't See AGI Coming | Liron Reacts

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m reacting to Arvind Narayanan’s interview with Robert Wright on the Nonzero podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoB_pikM3NYDr. Naray...

Dr. Keith Duggar has a high P(doom)?! Debate with MLST Co-host

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Keith Duggar from Machine Learning Street Talk was the subject of my recent reaction episode about whether GPT o1 can reason. But instead of ignor...

Getting Arrested for Barricading OpenAI's Office to Stop AI

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Kirchner and Remmelt Ellen, leaders of the Stop AI movement, think the only way to effectively protest superintelligent AI development is with civ...

Q&A #1 Part 2: Stock Picking, Creativity, Types of Doomers, Favorite Books

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a continuation of Q&A #1 Part 1 where I answer YOUR questions!00:00 Introduction01:20 Planning for a good outcome?03:10 Stock Picking ...

Q&A #1 Part 1: College, Asperger's, Elon Musk, Double Crux, Liron's IQ

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks for being one of the first Doom Debates subscribers and sending in your questions! This episode is Part 1; stay tuned for Part 2 coming soon.00...

Doom Tiffs #1: Amjad Masad, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Helen Toner, Roon, Lee Cronin, Naval Ravikant, Martin Casado, Yoshua Bengio

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, instead of reacting to a long-form presentation of someone’s position, I’m reporting on the various AI x-risk-related tiffs ...

Can GPT o1 Reason? | Liron Reacts to Tim Scarfe & Keith Duggar

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How smart is OpenAI’s new model, o1? What does “reasoning” ACTUALLY mean? What do computability theory and complexity theory tell us about the l...

Yuval Noah Harari's AI Warnings Don't Go Far Enough | Liron Reacts

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and bestselling author known for his thought-provoking works on human history, the future, and our evol...

I talked to Dr. Phil about AI extinction risk!

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's finally here, the Doom Debates / Dr. Phil crossover episode you've all been asking for 😂 The full episode is called “AI: The Future of Educa...

Debate with Roman Yampolskiy: 50% vs. 99.999% P(Doom) from AI

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is the director of the Cyber Security Lab at the University of Louisville. His new book is called AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictabl...

Jobst Landgrebe Doesn't Believe In AGI | Liron Reacts

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jobst Landgrebe, co-author of Why Machines Will Never Rule The World: Artificial Intelligence Without Fear, argues that AI is fundamentally limited in...

Arvind Narayanan's Makes AI Sound Normal | Liron Reacts

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m reacting to the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings and Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan.Prof. Narayanan is known for his critical persp...

Bret Weinstein Bungles It On AI Extinction | Liron Reacts

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m reacting to the Bret Weinstein’s recent appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. Bret is an evolutionary biologist...

SB 1047 AI Regulation Debate: Holly Elmore vs. Greg Tanaka

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

California's SB 1047 bill, authored by CA State Senator Scott Wiener, is the leading attempt by a US state to regulate catastrophic risks from frontie...