Doom Debates!
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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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1
How Friendly AI Will Become Deadly — Dr. Steven Byrnes (AGI Safety Researcher, Harvard Physics Postdoc) Returns!
1:28:59 Mar 10, 2026
2
Q&A — Claude Code's Impact, Anthropic vs The Pentagon, Roko('s Basilisk) Returns + Liron Updates His Views!
2:19:42 Mar 5, 2026
3
AI Will Take Our Jobs But SPARE Our Lives —Top AI Professor Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
1:07:14 Mar 3, 2026
4
Destiny's Fans Challenged Me to an AI Doom Debate
38:36 Feb 26, 2026
5
Doomsday Clock Physicist Warns AI Is Major Threat to Humanity!
1:36:04 Feb 24, 2026
6
Why I Started Doom Debates & How to Succeed in AI Risk Communications
59:52 Feb 19, 2026
7
Destiny Raises His P(Doom) At The End
1:07:05 Feb 17, 2026
8
The Facade of AI Safety Will Crumble (Video)
9:51 Feb 17, 2026
9
Elon Musk's Insane Plan for Surviving AI Takeover
10:13 Feb 14, 2026
10
The Only Politician Thinking Clearly About Superintelligence — California Governor Candidate Zoltan Istvan
1:18:56 Feb 13, 2026
11
His P(Doom) Is Only 2.6% — AI Doom Debate with Bentham's Bulldog, a.k.a. Matthew Adelstein
2:27:39 Feb 10, 2026
12
What Dario Amodei Misses In "The Adolescence of Technology" — Reaction With MIRI's Harlan Stewart
1:15:52 Feb 4, 2026
13
Q&A: Is Liron too DISMISSIVE of AI Harms? + New Studio, Demis Would #PauseAI, AI Water Use Debate
2:09:06 Jan 27, 2026
14
Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador-At-Large Says Humans & AI Can FOOM Together
1:52:01 Jan 20, 2026
15
Liron Enters Bannon's War Room to Explain Why AI Could End Humanity
30:30 Jan 13, 2026
16
Noah Smith vs. Liron Shapira — Will AI spare our lives AND our jobs?
1:55:09 Jan 5, 2026
17
I Debated Beff Jezos and His "e/acc" Army
3:52:30 Dec 30, 2025
18
Doom Debates LIVE Call-In Show! Listener Q&A about AGI, evolution vs. engineering, shoggoths & more
2:54:42 Dec 24, 2025
19
DOOMER vs. BUILDER — AI Doom Debate with Devin Elliot, Software Engineer & Retired Pro Snowboarder
1:17:03 Dec 17, 2025
20
PhD AI Researcher Says P(Doom) is TINY — Debate with Michael Timothy Bennett
1:52:25 Dec 11, 2025
21
Nobel Prizewinner SWAYED by My AI Doom Argument — Prof. Michael Levitt, Stanford University
1:11:50 Dec 5, 2025
22
Facing AI Doom, Lessons from Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) — Michael Ellsberg
2:15:50 Nov 29, 2025
23
Max Tegmark vs. Dean Ball: Should We BAN Superintelligence?
1:50:47 Nov 21, 2025
24
The AI Corrigibility Debate: MIRI Researchers Max Harms vs. Jeremy Gillen
2:17:48 Nov 14, 2025
25
These Effective Altruists Betrayed Me — Holly Elmore, PauseAI US Executive Director
16:17 Nov 11, 2025
26
DEBATE: Is AGI Really Decades Away? | Ex-MIRI Researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen vs. Liron Shapira
52:41 Nov 7, 2025
27
Liron Debunks The Most Common “AI Won't Kill Us" Arguments
1:06:30 Nov 5, 2025
28
Why AI Alignment Is 0% Solved — Ex-MIRI Researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen
40:43 Oct 31, 2025
29
Eben Pagan (aka David DeAngelo) Interviews Liron — Why 50% Chance AI Kills Everyone by 2050
47:27 Oct 29, 2025
30
Former MIRI Researcher Solving AI Alignment by Engineering Smarter Human Babies
49:27 Oct 25, 2025
31
Robert Wright Interrogates the Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Doom Position
47:36 Oct 23, 2025
32
Climate Change Is Stupidly EASY To Stop — Andrew Song, Cofounder of Make Sunsets
1:17:41 Oct 17, 2025
33
David Deutschian vs. Eliezer Yudkowskian Debate: Will AGI Cooperate With Humanity? — With Brett Hall
2:37:59 Oct 10, 2025
34
Debating People On The Street About AI Doom
23:02 Oct 4, 2025
35
Wes & Dylan Join Doom Debates — Violent Robots, Eliezer Yudkowsky, & Who Has the HIGHEST P(Doom)?!
1:04:05 Oct 2, 2025
36
The Merch Store Is Open For Business!
5:04 Oct 1, 2025
37
Are We A Circular Firing Squad? — with Holly Elmore, Executive Director of PauseAI US
2:41:43 Sep 27, 2025
38
Ex-OpenAI CEO Says AI Labs Are Making a HUGE Mistake — Emmett Shear
11:48 Sep 26, 2025
39
Donate to Doom Debates — YOU can meaningfully contribute to lowering AI x-risk!
17:54 Sep 25, 2025
40
Liv Boeree Has a Strategy to Stop the AI Death Race
20:58 Sep 24, 2025
41
“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” Party — Max Tegmark, Liv Boeree, Emmett Shear, Gary Marcus, Rob Miles & more!
3:49:59 Sep 19, 2025
42
Max Tegmark Says It's Time To Protest Against AI Companies
3:58 Sep 18, 2025
43
Eliezer Yudkowsky — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
1:21 Sep 15, 2025
44
ANNOUNCEMENT: Eliezer Yudkowsky interview premieres tomorrow!
3:07 Sep 15, 2025
45
How AI Kills Everyone on the Planet in 10 Years — Liron on The Jona Ragogna Podcast
1:09:17 Sep 13, 2025
46
Get ready for LAUNCH WEEK!!! “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares
6:30 Sep 10, 2025
47
Tech CTO Has 99.999% P(Doom) — “This is my bugout house” — Louis Berman, AI X-Risk Activist
1:21:05 Aug 28, 2025
48
Rob Miles, Top AI Safety Educator: Humanity Isn’t Ready for Superintelligence!
2:11:50 Aug 23, 2025
49
Debate with Vitalik Buterin — Will “d/acc” Protect Humanity from Superintelligent AI?
2:26:10 Aug 12, 2025
50
Why I'm Scared GPT-9 Will Murder Me — Liron on Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast
1:19:23 Aug 8, 2025
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