Podcast Episodes

Every Student is CHEATING with AI — College in the AGI Era (feat. Sophomore Liam Robins)

Liam Robins is a math major at George Washington University who recently had his own "AGI awakening" after reading Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness. I met him at my Manifest 2025 talk ab…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Carl Feynman, AI Engineer & Son of Richard Feynman, Says Building AGI Likely Means Human EXTINCTION!

Carl Feynman got his Master’s in Computer Science and B.S. in Philosophy from MIT, followed by a four-decade career in AI engineering.

He’s known Eliezer Yudkowsky since the ‘90s, and witnessed Elieze…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Richard Hanania vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate

Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. His work has been praised by Vice President JD Vance, Tyler Cowen, and Bryan Caplan among others.

In his infl…

Published on 2 months ago

Emmett Shear (OpenAI Ex-Interim-CEO)'s New “Softmax” AI Alignment Plan — Is It Legit?

Emmett Shear is the cofounder and ex-CEO of Twitch, ex-interim-CEO of OpenAI, and a former Y Combinator partner. He recently announced Softmax, a new company researching a novel solution to AI alignm…

Published on 2 months ago

Will AI Have a Moral Compass? — Debate with Scott Sumner, Author of The Money Illusion

Prof. Scott Sumner is a well-known macroeconomist who spent more than 30 years teaching at Bentley University, and now holds an Emeritus Chair in monetary policy at George Mason University's Mercatus…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Searle's Chinese Room is DUMB — It's Just Slow-Motion Intelligence

John Searle's "Chinese Room argument" has been called one of the most famous thought experiments of the 20th century. It's still frequently cited today to argue AI can never truly become intelligent.…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Doom Debates Live @ Manifest 2025 — Liron vs. Everyone

Let’s see where the attendees of Manifest 2025 get off the Doom Train, and whether I can convince them to stay on and ride with me to the end of the line!

00:00 Introduction to Doom Debates

03:21 What’…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Poking holes in the AI doom argument — 83 stops where you could get off the “Doom Train”

I often talk about the “Doom Train”, the series of claims and arguments involved in concluding that P(Doom) from artificial superintelligence is high. In this episode, it’s finally time to show you t…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Q&A: Ilya's AGI Doomsday Bunker, Veo 3 is Westworld, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and much more!

Ilya’s doom bunker, proof of humanity, the doomsday argument, CAIS firing John Sherman, Bayesian networks, Westworld, AI consciousness, Eliezer’s latest podcast, and more!

00:00 Introduction

04:13 Doom…

Published on 3 months ago

This $85M-Backed Founder Claims Open Source AGI is Safe — Debate with Himanshu Tyagi

Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a professor of engineering at the Indian Institute of Science and the co-founder of Sentient, an open-source AI platform that raised $85M in funding led by Founders Fund.

In this…

Published on 3 months ago