Doom Debates

By Liron Shapira

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It's time to talk about the end of the world!

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Episode Date
PhD AI Researcher Says P(Doom) is TINY — Debate with Michael Timothy Bennett
Dec 11, 2025
Nobel Prizewinner SWAYED by My AI Doom Argument — Prof. Michael Levitt, Stanford University
Dec 05, 2025
Facing AI Doom, Lessons from Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) — Michael Ellsberg
Nov 29, 2025
Max Tegmark vs. Dean Ball: Should We BAN Superintelligence?
Nov 21, 2025
The AI Corrigibility Debate: MIRI Researchers Max Harms vs. Jeremy Gillen
Nov 14, 2025
These Effective Altruists Betrayed Me — Holly Elmore, PauseAI US Executive Director
Nov 11, 2025
DEBATE: Is AGI Really Decades Away? | Ex-MIRI Researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen vs. Liron Shapira
Nov 07, 2025
Liron Debunks The Most Common “AI Won't Kill Us" Arguments
Nov 05, 2025
Why AI Alignment Is 0% Solved — Ex-MIRI Researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen
Oct 31, 2025
Eben Pagan (aka David DeAngelo) Interviews Liron — Why 50% Chance AI Kills Everyone by 2050
Oct 29, 2025
Former MIRI Researcher Solving AI Alignment by Engineering Smarter Human Babies
Oct 25, 2025
Robert Wright Interrogates the Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Doom Position
Oct 23, 2025
Climate Change Is Stupidly EASY To Stop — Andrew Song, Cofounder of Make Sunsets
Oct 17, 2025
David Deutschian vs. Eliezer Yudkowskian Debate: Will AGI Cooperate With Humanity? — With Brett Hall
Oct 10, 2025
Debating People On The Street About AI Doom
Oct 04, 2025
Wes & Dylan Join Doom Debates — Violent Robots, Eliezer Yudkowsky, & Who Has the HIGHEST P(Doom)?!
Oct 02, 2025
The Merch Store Is Open For Business!
Oct 01, 2025
Are We A Circular Firing Squad? — with Holly Elmore, Executive Director of PauseAI US
Sep 27, 2025
Ex-OpenAI CEO Says AI Labs Are Making a HUGE Mistake — Emmett Shear
Sep 26, 2025
Donate to Doom Debates — YOU can meaningfully contribute to lowering AI x-risk!
Sep 25, 2025
Liv Boeree Has a Strategy to Stop the AI Death Race
Sep 24, 2025
“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” Party — Max Tegmark, Liv Boeree, Emmett Shear, Gary Marcus, Rob Miles & more!
Sep 19, 2025
Max Tegmark Says It's Time To Protest Against AI Companies
Sep 18, 2025
Eliezer Yudkowsky — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Sep 15, 2025
ANNOUNCEMENT: Eliezer Yudkowsky interview premieres tomorrow!
Sep 15, 2025
How AI Kills Everyone on the Planet in 10 Years — Liron on The Jona Ragogna Podcast
Sep 13, 2025
Get ready for LAUNCH WEEK!!! “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares
Sep 10, 2025
Tech CTO Has 99.999% P(Doom) — “This is my bugout house” — Louis Berman, AI X-Risk Activist
Aug 28, 2025
Rob Miles, Top AI Safety Educator: Humanity Isn’t Ready for Superintelligence!
Aug 23, 2025
Debate with Vitalik Buterin — Will “d/acc” Protect Humanity from Superintelligent AI?
Aug 12, 2025
Why I'm Scared GPT-9 Will Murder Me — Liron on Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast
Aug 08, 2025
The Man Who Might SOLVE AI Alignment — Dr. Steven Byrnes, AGI Safety Researcher @ Astera Institute
Aug 01, 2025
Top Professor Condemns AGI Development: “It’s Frankly Evil” — Geoffrey Miller
Jul 24, 2025
Zuck’s Superintelligence Agenda is a SCANDAL | Warning Shots EP1
Jul 22, 2025
Rationalist Podcasts Unite! — The Bayesian Conspiracy ⨉ Doom Debates Crossover
Jul 18, 2025
His P(Doom) Doubles At The End — AI Safety Debate with Liam Robins, GWU Sophomore
Jul 15, 2025
AI Won't Save Your Job — Liron Reacts to Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Jul 10, 2025
Every Student is CHEATING with AI — College in the AGI Era (feat. Sophomore Liam Robins)
Jul 07, 2025
Carl Feynman, AI Engineer & Son of Richard Feynman, Says Building AGI Likely Means Human EXTINCTION!
Jul 04, 2025
Richard Hanania vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate
Jun 28, 2025
Emmett Shear (OpenAI Ex-Interim-CEO)'s New “Softmax” AI Alignment Plan — Is It Legit?
Jun 24, 2025
Will AI Have a Moral Compass? — Debate with Scott Sumner, Author of The Money Illusion
Jun 18, 2025
Searle's Chinese Room is DUMB — It's Just Slow-Motion Intelligence
Jun 14, 2025
Doom Debates Live @ Manifest 2025 — Liron vs. Everyone
Jun 09, 2025
Poking holes in the AI doom argument — 83 stops where you could get off the “Doom Train”
Jun 07, 2025
Q&A: Ilya's AGI Doomsday Bunker, Veo 3 is Westworld, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and much more!
May 29, 2025
This $85M-Backed Founder Claims Open Source AGI is Safe — Debate with Himanshu Tyagi
May 22, 2025
Emergency Episode: Center for AI Safety Chickens Out
May 21, 2025
Gary Marcus vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate
May 15, 2025
Mike Israetel vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate
May 08, 2025
Doom Scenario: Human-Level AI Can't Control Smarter AI
May 05, 2025
The Most Likely AI Doom Scenario — with Jim Babcock, LessWrong Team
Apr 30, 2025
AI Could Give Humans MORE Control — Ozzie Gooen
Apr 24, 2025
Top AI Professor Has 85% P(Doom) — David Duvenaud, Fmr. Anthropic Safety Team Lead
Apr 18, 2025
“AI 2027” — Top Superforecaster's Imminent Doom Scenario
Apr 15, 2025
Top Economist Sees AI Doom Coming — Dr. Peter Berezin, BCA Research
Apr 09, 2025
AI News: GPT-4o Images, AI Unemployment, Emmett Shear's New Safety Org — with Nathan Labenz
Apr 03, 2025
How an AI Doomer Sees The World — Liron on The Human Podcast
Mar 28, 2025
Gödel's Theorem Says Intelligence ≠ Power? AI Doom Debate with Alexander Campbell
Mar 21, 2025
Alignment is EASY and Roko's Basilisk is GOOD?!
Mar 17, 2025
Roger Penrose is WRONG about Gödel's Theorem and AI Consciousness
Mar 10, 2025
We Found AI's Preferences — What David Shapiro MISSED in this bombshell Center for AI Safety paper
Feb 21, 2025
Does AI Competition = AI Alignment? Debate with Gil Mark
Feb 10, 2025
Toy Model of the AI Control Problem
Feb 06, 2025
Superintelligent AI vs. Real-World Engineering | Liron Reacts to Bryan Cantrill
Jan 31, 2025
2,500 Subscribers Live Q&A Recording
Jan 27, 2025
AI Twitter Beefs #3: Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Yann LeCun, Eliezer Yudkowsky & More!
Jan 24, 2025
Effective Altruism Debate with Jonas Sota
Jan 17, 2025
God vs. AI Doom: Debate with Bentham's Bulldog
Jan 15, 2025
Debate with a former OpenAI Research Team Lead — Prof. Kenneth Stanley
Jan 06, 2025
OpenAI o3 and Claude Alignment Faking — How doomed are we?
Dec 30, 2024
AI Will Kill Us All — Liron Shapira on The Flares
Dec 27, 2024
Roon vs. Liron: AI Doom Debate
Dec 18, 2024
Scott Aaronson Makes Me Think OpenAI's “Safety” Is Fake, Clueless, Reckless and Insane
Dec 11, 2024
Liron Reacts to Subbarao Kambhampati on Machine Learning Street Talk
Nov 28, 2024
This Yudkowskian Has A 99.999% P(Doom)
Nov 27, 2024
Cosmology, AI Doom, and the Future of Humanity with Fraser Cain
Nov 21, 2024
AI Doom Debate: Vaden Masrani & Ben Chugg vs. Liron Shapira
Nov 19, 2024
Andrew Critch vs. Liron Shapira: Will AI Extinction Be Fast Or Slow?
Nov 16, 2024
AI Twitter Beefs #2: Yann LeCun, David Deutsch, Tyler Cowen, Jack Clark, Beff Jezos, Samuel Hammond vs. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Geoffrey Hinton, Carl Feynman
Nov 13, 2024
Is P(Doom) Meaningful? Epistemology Debate with Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg
Nov 08, 2024
15-Minute Intro to AI Doom
Nov 04, 2024
Lee Cronin vs. Liron Shapira: AI Doom Debate
Oct 30, 2024
Ben Horowitz says nuclear proliferation is GOOD? I disagree.
Oct 25, 2024
“AI Snake Oil” Prof. Arvind Narayanan Can't See AGI Coming | Liron Reacts
Oct 13, 2024
Dr. Keith Duggar has a high P(doom)?! Debate with MLST Co-host
Oct 08, 2024
Getting Arrested for Barricading OpenAI's Office to Stop AI
Oct 04, 2024
Q&A #1 Part 2: Stock Picking, Creativity, Types of Doomers, Favorite Books
Oct 02, 2024
Q&A #1 Part 1: College, Asperger's, Elon Musk, Double Crux, Liron's IQ
Oct 01, 2024
Doom Tiffs #1: Amjad Masad, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Helen Toner, Roon, Lee Cronin, Naval Ravikant, Martin Casado, Yoshua Bengio
Sep 25, 2024
Can GPT o1 Reason? | Liron Reacts to Tim Scarfe & Keith Duggar
Sep 18, 2024
Yuval Noah Harari's AI Warnings Don't Go Far Enough | Liron Reacts
Sep 11, 2024
I talked to Dr. Phil about AI extinction risk!
Sep 10, 2024
Debate with Roman Yampolskiy: 50% vs. 99.999% P(Doom) from AI
Sep 06, 2024
Jobst Landgrebe Doesn't Believe In AGI | Liron Reacts
Sep 04, 2024
Arvind Narayanan's Makes AI Sound Normal | Liron Reacts
Aug 29, 2024
Bret Weinstein Bungles It On AI Extinction | Liron Reacts
Aug 27, 2024
SB 1047 AI Regulation Debate: Holly Elmore vs. Greg Tanaka
Aug 26, 2024
David Shapiro Part II: Unaligned Superintelligence Is Totally Fine?
Aug 22, 2024
Maciej Ceglowski, Pinboard Founder, Says the Idea of Superintelligence “Eats Smart People” | Liron Reacts
Aug 19, 2024
David Shapiro Doesn't Get PauseAI | Liron Reacts
Aug 16, 2024
David Brooks's Non-Doomer Non-Argument in the NY Times | Liron Reacts
Aug 15, 2024
Richard Sutton Dismisses AI Extinction Fears with Simplistic Arguments | Liron Reacts
Aug 13, 2024
AI Doom Debate: “Cards Against Humanity” Co-Creator David Pinsof
Aug 08, 2024
P(Doom) Estimates Shouldn't Inform Policy??
Aug 05, 2024
Liron Reacts to Martin Casado's AI Claims
Jul 31, 2024
AI Doom Debate: Tilek Mamutov vs. Liron Shapira
Jul 26, 2024
Liron Reacts to Mike Israetel's "Solving the AI Alignment Problem"
Jul 18, 2024
Robin Hanson Highlights and Post-Debate Analysis
Jul 12, 2024
Robin Hanson vs. Liron Shapira: Is Near-Term Extinction From AGI Plausible?
Jul 08, 2024
Preparing for my AI Doom Debate with Robin Hanson
Jul 05, 2024
Robin Hanson debate prep: Liron argues *against* AI doom!
Jun 30, 2024
AI Doom Q&A
Jun 26, 2024
AI Doom Debate: Will AGI’s analysis paralysis save humanity?
Jun 22, 2024
Steven Pinker's Flimsy Arguments for AI Optimism
Jun 21, 2024
AI Doom Debate: What's a plausible alignment scenario?
Jun 20, 2024
Q&A: How scary is a superintelligent football coach?
Jun 18, 2024
AI Doom Debate: George Hotz vs. Liron Shapira
Jun 17, 2024
Should we gamble on AGI before all 8 billion of us die?
Jun 16, 2024
Can humans judge AI's arguments?
Jun 14, 2024
What this "Doom Debates" podcast is about
Jun 12, 2024
AI Doom Debate: Liron Shapira vs. Kelvin Santos
Jun 10, 2024