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Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates
October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 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 of OpenAI & Anthropic, the latest Gemini announcement, and…
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Eliezer Yudkowsky Tried to “Coup the World”?! — Garrison Lovely, Author of OBSOLETE
September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 28 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 give it the Doom Debates stamp of approval! While we’re mostly…
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Will AI Kill Everyone by 2050? Debate with Dr. Casey Hart (Ontology Explained)
September 23, 2026 · 2 hr 36 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 bet on AGI arriving before 2075. Casey and I agree AI has…
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Top Safety Researchers Forecast Jobpocalypse & Doom — Adam Khoja & Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety
September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 14 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 benchmarks tell us about the future, and why smarter AI…
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The Week in AI that Changed the World, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates
September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 36 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 week we discuss the epic AI vibe shift that was catalyzed by an…
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He May Have Found AI's FEELINGS — Richard Ren, Center for AI Safety Researcher
September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 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 claim that today’s AIs have measurable, human-like feelings…
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USA and China Will Each Be BETRAYED By Their Own AIs — Adam Khoja, Center for AI Safety
September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 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 AI Malfunction (MAIM), his new paper on AI betrayal, and…
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Sam Altman Is Gaslighting About AI Risk After His Own AI Just Went Rogue
August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 22 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 react to his latest interview and explain why I think that…