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Doom Debates!

by Liron Shapira

It's time to talk about the end of the world. With your host, Liron Shapira. lironshapira.substack.com

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Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates

Bestselling 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 invest

Oct 2
1 h 18 min

Eliezer Yudkowsky Tried to “Coup the World”?! — Garrison Lovely, Author of OBSOLETE

Garrison 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 I

Sep 29
1 h 27 min

Will AI Kill Everyone by 2050? Debate with Dr. Casey Hart (Ontology Explained)

Casey 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 wo

Sep 23
2 h 35 min

Top Safety Researchers Forecast Jobpocalypse & Doom — Adam Khoja & Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety

What 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 disapp

Sep 15
1 h 13 min

The Week in AI that Changed the World, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates

NYT 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.

Sep 12
1 h 35 min

He May Have Found AI's FEELINGS — Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety Researcher

Richard 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

Sep 9
1 h 08 min

USA and China Will Each Be BETRAYED By Their Own AIs — Adam Khoja, Center for AI Safety

Adam 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

Sep 3
1 h 32 min

Sam Altman Is Gaslighting About AI Risk After His Own AI Just Went Rogue

Sam 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 thi

Aug 28
1 h 21 min

They’re Making AI Doom Cool! Ft. AELLA, Brangus, Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver & Josh Thor of PlzDontKillUs

Come 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 influenc

Aug 26
1 h 57 min

I Warned You AI Would Hack Us — My 2023 Interview Aged Terrifyingly Well

In 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 war

Aug 20
1 h 03 min

Former Singularity Institute President: PauseAI Is Making AI Doom WORSE

Michael Vassar used to work closely with Eliezer Yudkowsky as President of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the organization that later became the M

Aug 18
1 h 43 min

14-Year-Old Forecaster Challenges My P(Doom) — Eli Goldfine

Eli 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, El

Aug 11
2 h 11 min

OpenAI's Bombshell Hack Explained: Swarms of Agents, Zero-Day Exploits, & Misaligned AI

OpenAI 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 dow

Aug 8
1 h 57 min

I Raised His P(Doom) Live On Air — Liron on Milk Road AI

Milk 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

Aug 6
40 min

Google DeepMind AI Safety Researcher Who Just RESIGNED Says P(Doom) is 25% — Debate with Alex Turner

Dr. 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

Aug 4
1 h 07 min

NEWS: Anthropic's AI Went on a Hacking Rampage, Leopold's Fund Crash + Doom Debates Donation Drive (7/31)

OpenAI and Anthropic both admitted their AIs went rogue, hacking real companies with zero-day exploits. Producer Ori and I break down the escape, demolish Gary Marcus's 2

Aug 1
2 h 22 min

Doom Debates State of the Show 2026

Welcome to the first annual Doom Debates State of the Show! 👉 Please click here to make a tax-deductible donation to Doom Debates 👈 Doom Debates is a fiscally sponsored

Jul 29
56 min

Special Report: Google DeepMind's Frontier AI Policy Lead Makes Controversial Sh*tpost

As political momentum grows for a critical AI pause policy, a key Google DeepMind policy leader made a mockery of coordination efforts. After friend-of-the-show Roon twe

Jul 28
29 min

Where Do YOU Get Off the Doom Train? Live Debate at Manifest 2026

Producer Ori takes over hosting duties in this special episode, a live recording from Manifest 2026. He takes attendees for a ride on The Doom Train, the series of claim

Jul 25
50 min

Debating College Students About AI Extinction

College students are so angry about AI that they booed its very mention at 2026 commencement ceremonies. So why aren’t they rallying behind PauseAI? I went back to my alm

Jul 21
17 min

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