Doom Debates!
by Liron Shapira
Latest episode
Is an AI Bubble Bursting? With Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast
Is an AI Bubble Bursting? With Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast
About this podcast
It's time to talk about the end of the world. With your host, Liron Shapira.
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Episodes
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- Is an AI Bubble Bursting? With Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast · 1 h 20 minBestselling author Robert Wright and I discuss this week’s stock market jitters, Google’s new interactive world model, and why I sometimes spend $1,000 in a day on AI agents…
- Zack Korman, Cybersecurity Expert, Is Confident That Humanity Will SURVIVE · 2 h 15 minCybersecurity expert and entrepreneur Zack Korman is an increasingly prominent nondoomer voice on Twitter. Naturally, with AI now breaking out of sandboxes and hacking corporate…
- “AI Chernobyl” Will Scare Trump and Xi To Order An Immediate Pause — Jeremie & Edouard Harris · 1 h 29 minPhysicists Jeremie and Edouard Harris, co-founders of Gladstone AI, are preparing for an “AI Chernobyl” warning shot. If that forces Trump and Xi to negotiate an AI slowdown, the…
- The Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky — with Holly Elmore, PauseAI US · 1 h 46 minDr. Holly Elmore is the founder and executive director of PauseAI US and holds a Harvard PhD in evolutionary biology. She’s back, and this time she’s taking on none other than…
- AI Has Become Profoundly WEIRD, But Is Anyone Noticing? With Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse · 1 h 7 minSarah Hastings-Woodhouse is an AI safety writer and researcher who went down the AI doom rabbit hole in 2023 and never came back up. After a year as digital communications…
- Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates · 1 h 18 minBestselling author Robert Wright and I are back for round two of our collaboration, reacting to the week in AI. We cover Trump's summit with the AI labs, the FTC's investigation…
- Eliezer Yudkowsky Tried to “Coup the World”?! — Garrison Lovely, Author of OBSOLETE · 1 h 27 minGarrison Lovely is an award-winning journalist and author of the highly anticipated book, Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us and How to Stop It. I…
- Will AI Kill Everyone by 2050? Debate with Dr. Casey Hart (Ontology Explained) · 2 h 35 minCasey Hart is a professional ontologist who has closely studied If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and concluded the arguments are bad. His P(Doom) is under 1%, and he wouldn’t…
- Top Safety Researchers Forecast Jobpocalypse & Doom — Adam Khoja & Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety · 1 h 13 minWhat happens when AI passes our tests faster than we create new ones? Adam Khoja and Richard Ren helped build Humanity’s Last Exam. They return to explain what the disappearing…
- The Week in AI that Changed the World, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates · 1 h 35 minNYT bestselling author Robert Wright and I are kicking off a new experiment, a Nonzero × Doom Debates collaboration to react to big AI news and help you make sense of it. This…
- He May Have Found AI's FEELINGS — Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety Researcher · 1 h 8 minRichard Ren is a research engineer at the Center for AI Safety who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. His new paper on AI wellbeing makes the bold…
- USA and China Will Each Be BETRAYED By Their Own AIs — Adam Khoja, Center for AI Safety · 1 h 32 minAdam Khoja is a top AI forecaster who led the 2023 Center for AI Safety statement that shattered the Overton window on AI extinction risk. We cover his background, Mutual Assured…
- Sam Altman Is Gaslighting About AI Risk After His Own AI Just Went Rogue · 1 h 21 minSam Altman keeps insisting that AI progress is going better than the doomers predicted and that even superintelligence may not change the world as radically as people think. I…
- They’re Making AI Doom Cool! Ft. AELLA, Brangus, Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver & Josh Thor of PlzDontKillUs · 1 h 57 minCome with me into the world of PlzDontKillUs, a bold new AI x-risk communication accelerator program that just finished its first cohort. PlzDontKillUs took the influencer-house…
- I Warned You AI Would Hack Us — My 2023 Interview Aged Terrifyingly Well · 1 h 3 minIn April 2023, weeks after GPT-4 launched, when many were saying it was just a "stochastic parrot", I went on AdQuick's Madvertising podcast hosted by Adam Singer and warned that…
- Former Singularity Institute President: PauseAI Is Making AI Doom WORSE · 1 h 43 minMichael Vassar used to work closely with Eliezer Yudkowsky as President of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the organization that later became the Machine…
- 14-Year-Old Forecaster Challenges My P(Doom) — Eli Goldfine · 2 h 11 minEli Goldfine is an unusually thoughtful 14-year-old podcast host who’s rapidly becoming an authoritative voice in the prediction market space. In this unique episode, Eli brings…
- OpenAI's Bombshell Hack Explained: Swarms of Agents, Zero-Day Exploits, & Misaligned AI · 1 h 57 minOpenAI just went public with the details of the Hugging Face hack, and it's straight out of a Yudkowskian parable. Here's my reaction with Producer Ori, where I break down what…
- I Raised His P(Doom) Live On Air — Liron on Milk Road AI · 41 minMilk Road AI, a daily AI investing show that’s described as “99% optimistic about AI,” invited me on to make the case for AI doom. We ride the Doom Train, and I share my…
- Google DeepMind AI Safety Researcher Who Just RESIGNED Says P(Doom) is 25% — Debate with Alex Turner · 1 h 7 minDr. Alex Turner went viral for resigning from Google DeepMind over its Pentagon AI contract, which he said lacked binding restrictions against autonomous weapons and mass…
