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The Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky — with Holly Elmore, PauseAI US

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AI Has Become Profoundly WEIRD, But Is Anyone Noticing? With Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Former Singularity Institute President: PauseAI Is Making AI Doom WORSE

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

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

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

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

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

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Doom Debates State of the Show 2026

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

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

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Debating College Students About AI Extinction

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AI Took His Job, But He's Trying to Stay Optimistic — Debate with Asian Dad Energy

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Living with a 50% P(AI Doom) — Liron Shapira and Peter Clarke

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Let's CALL OUT the AI Doom “Enablers” Joining OpenAI & Anthropic — Dr. Holly Elmore, PauseAI US

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Even 0.1% P(Doom) Is Unacceptable — World-Class Coder Casey Muratori

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Robert Wright's New Book, The God Test, Launches Today. What's His P(We Pass)?

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Will AI Actually Destroy Humanity? Liron vs 9 Rationalists at LessOnline 2026

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Why I'm Happy the US Government BANNED Claude Fable — "AI in the AM" Livestream with Nathan Labenz

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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Manhattan residents need to VOTE Alex Bores for Congress next week (Jun 23)!

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This Harvard Professor Says AI Alignment Will BACKFIRE - Dr. Stephen Casper

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He Leads a Top AI Research Program, But He’d Hit the PAUSE Button Today! Kevin Zhu, Algoverse Founder

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Top Mathematicians Face Irrelevance, a 7-Year-Old's P(Doom) + The “Off Switch" Debate — Livestream May 29

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Anthropic's New Hire Should WORRY You, AI is a Math Genius, Live Callers! — Livestream (May 22)

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I Called Out a16z Partner (Martin Casado) for Downplaying AI Capabilities in 2024

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Ben Goertzel Wants to Build AGI Even FASTER — AI Doom Debate

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NEWS: Trump & Xi Want AI Guardrails, ChatGPT vs Claude, and Liron Caught Rationalizing!? DD Live (5/15)

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Who Was Liron Shapira BEFORE Doom Debates? — Interview on Theo Jaffee's Podcast from December 2023

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Dr. Mike Israetel Returns to Debate: Will AI Kill Everyone, Or Make Everything Awesome?

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Eliezer Yudkowsky Post-Debate Reaction, Elon's New Frenemy & Liron's Bet on Spencer Pratt!? - Doom Debates Live (5/8/26)

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Debate with @lumpenspace (AI Accelerationist) — Is it GOOD for AI to replace us?

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NEW: Watch the Eliezer Yudkowsky vs. Secret AI Lab Director Debate on my other channel!

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Who Paid $10,000 to Debate Yudkowsky? Plus AI Twitter & Investing Tips - Doom Debates Live (5/1/26)

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Justin Helps (⁨@Primer on YouTube) is Worried about AI Takeover

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Live Q&A: Bernie Sanders Wakes Up to AI Doom, Dwarkesh's $20,000 Questions, Caller Debates the Alignment Problem!

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Emad Mostaque Has A 50% P(Doom) & A Plan To Lower It

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Did Eliezer Yudkowsky Really Call for VIOLENCE? — Debate with John Alioto

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Are AI Doomers “Calling for Violence”? Debate with Steven Balik

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Tristan Harris and Ted Tremper are WAKING UP Humanity to AI Extinction!

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I Challenged DON’T LOOK UP’s Screenwriter to Look Up At AGI

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I Went On Jubilee's Middle Ground To Warn About AI Extinction!

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Liron’s 700% Productivity Increase, Bernie & AOC’s Datacenter Ban, Are We In Full Takeoff? — Live Q&A

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AI Alignment Is Solved?! PhD Researcher Quintin Pope vs Liron Shapira (2023 Twitter Debate)

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I'm Watching AI Take Everyone's Job | Liron on Robert Wright's NonZero Podcast

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This Top Economist's P(Doom) Just Shot Up 10x! Noah Smith Returns To Explain His Update

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Talking AI Doom with Dr. Claire Berlinski & Friends

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How Friendly AI Will Become Deadly — Dr. Steven Byrnes (AGI Safety Researcher, Harvard Physics Postdoc) Returns!

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Q&A — Claude Code's Impact, Anthropic vs The Pentagon, Roko('s Basilisk) Returns + Liron Updates His Views!

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AI Will Take Our Jobs But SPARE Our Lives —Top AI Professor Moshe Vardi (Rice University)

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Destiny's Fans Challenged Me to an AI Doom Debate

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Doomsday Clock Physicist Warns AI Is Major Threat to Humanity!

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Why I Started Doom Debates & How to Succeed in AI Risk Communications

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Destiny Raises His P(Doom) At The End

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The Facade of AI Safety Will Crumble (Video)

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Elon Musk's Insane Plan for Surviving AI Takeover

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The Only Politician Thinking Clearly About Superintelligence — California Governor Candidate Zoltan Istvan

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His P(Doom) Is Only 2.6% — AI Doom Debate with Bentham's Bulldog, a.k.a. Matthew Adelstein

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What Dario Amodei Misses In "The Adolescence of Technology" — Reaction With MIRI's Harlan Stewart

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Q&A: Is Liron too DISMISSIVE of AI Harms? + New Studio, Demis Would #PauseAI, AI Water Use Debate

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Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador-At-Large Says Humans & AI Can FOOM Together

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Liron Enters Bannon's War Room to Explain Why AI Could End Humanity

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Noah Smith vs. Liron Shapira — Will AI spare our lives AND our jobs?

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I Debated Beff Jezos and His "e/acc" Army

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Doom Debates LIVE Call-In Show! Listener Q&A about AGI, evolution vs. engineering, shoggoths & more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Former MIRI Researcher Solving AI Alignment by Engineering Smarter Human Babies

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Robert Wright Interrogates the Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Doom Position

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

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

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Debating People On The Street About AI Doom

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

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The Merch Store Is Open For Business!

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

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

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

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Liv Boeree Has a Strategy to Stop the AI Death Race

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

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

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Eliezer Yudkowsky — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Eliezer Yudkowsky interview premieres tomorrow!