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- 4 days ago1h 23m
Can Republicans STOP AI Doom? — Brendan & Randan Steinhauser
Brendan and Randan Steinhauser are a husband and wife team who know how to make things happen in conservative politics.Brendan helped build the Tea Party movement and ran John Cornyn’s Senate campaign. Randan has been involved in advocacy and political campaigns in more than 30 states, including working under former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.Now they’re bringing Republicans, parents, and faith leaders into the fight against AI catastrophe.They know how to build political momentum, but my question is whether that will lead to action quickly enough. I'm skeptical of incremental legislation efforts and data center protests, but they argue it's necessary coalition-building that leads to superintelligence regulation.This isn't your typical state-of-the-political-map podcast. We also get into:Their personal AGI awakeningsHow people of faith make sense of claims of Godlike AI and AI doomMy own transition to joining the Republican PartyTranshumanism, souls, and mind uploadingParenting in the age of AIIt’s a candid conversation with a couple who are making the fight for our future feel a little more winnable. Enjoy!Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTm9tqS1IbwTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:01:07 — Introducing Brendan & Randan Steinhauser00:02:22 — Why I Came Out as Republican00:04:28 — The Alliance for Secure AI00:06:30 — Losing Control of Superintelligence00:07:52 — Brendan, What’s Your P(Doom)?™00:08:26 — Randan, What’s Your P(Doom)?™00:10:47 — Finding the AI Safety Movement00:15:04 — Trump, Republicans, and Big Tech Money00:19:22 — Bringing Faith Leaders Into AI Safety00:23:23 — God’s Plan and Human Extinction00:29:43 — Priorities for Congress00:31:42 — The Morality of AI Companies00:34:03 — PauseAI and Employee Whistleblowers00:43:34 — Effective Altruism and a Broader Coalition00:48:12 — Transhumanism, Souls, and Mind Uploading00:57:40 — Building a Machine God01:03:20 — Raising Children Under AI Risk01:07:35 — Data Center Protests and Movement Building01:13:09 — Talking to People About AI Risk01:17:32 — State Laws and the 2028 Election01:20:38 — Getting InvolvedLinksREFERENCED IN THE EPISODEAI Risk Evaluation Act — Hawley–Blumenthal bill textThe Singularity Is Near — Ray KurzweilCan We Stop the AI Apocalypse? — Dan Crenshaw interviews Eliezer YudkowskyMagnifica Humanitas — Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on humanity in the age of AIPacing the Frontier — open letter from frontier AI employeesPauseAI — the global movement to pause unsafe AI developmentPauseAI US — organizing and advocacy in the United StatesJacob Coxon’s resignation statement — the insider warning discussedAmericans for Responsible Innovation — Brad Carson’s bipartisan advocacy organizationPAST DOOM DEBATES EPISODES MENTIONEDLet’s CALL OUT the AI Doom “Enablers” — Holly Elmore on working at AI labsGod vs. AI Doom: Debate with Bentham’s BulldogDOOM DEBATESJoin the Doom Debates DiscordSupport Doom Debates — become a mission partnerDoom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take
- 1 weeks ago1h 20m
Is an AI Bubble Bursting? With Robert Wright’s Nonzero Podcast
Bestselling author Robert Wright and I discuss this week’s stock market jitters, Google’s new interactive world model, and why I sometimes spend $1,000 in a day on AI agents. Plus:The Binance hack;An AI audit of two star economists;Anthropic’s financial prospects;And whether AI could crack the math behind encryption.Enjoy another edition of the Nonzero x Doom Debates collab!Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkKpPeMVVX8Timestamps00:00:00 — Teaser00:00:50 — Nonzero Doom returns00:03:07 — A foom in slow motion00:07:47 — Is AI winter canceled forever?00:10:33 — Will Google’s Genie 4 lure us into the Matrix?00:16:54 — Liron’s bull case for Google stock00:24:34 — Does Google have big-company disease?00:28:28 — Could a slowdown actually help Anthropic and OpenAI?00:30:12 — Was OpenAI’s “pause” just PR?00:40:01 — Social science judgment day is coming00:47:12 — Why even AI’s upsides could tear society apart00:51:12 — Does OpenAI’s alignment approach improve on Asimov?00:55:06 — Sam and Satya pivot on alignment00:58:34 — Crypto and the AI hacking threat01:03:42 — Could AI crack the math behind encryption?01:08:52 — Liron’s $1,000-a-day AI coding habit01:15:23 — Explaining the missing productivity boost01:17:26 — Does Anthropic’s S-1 sink the AI bubble thesis?LinksROBERT WRIGHT & NONZERONonzero’s post for this episode — “Is an AI Bubble Bursting?”Subscribe to The NonZero NewsletterThe God Test — Bob’s 2026 book on AIJoin NonZero’s Discord serverNonzero on X (@NonzeroPods)THE WEEK IN AI“Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering” — the IPO filing Liron calls the final nail in the coffin of the Ed Zitron campWhere’s Your Ed At — Ed Zitron’s newsletter, home of the AI-bubble bear case“Introducing Genie 4” — Google DeepMind’s real-time interactive world model“Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems” — Google’s new frontier training run, the “lukewarm” release“Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model” — the follow-up Google announced two weeks later“Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves for OpenAI” — CNBC on the talent Google has bled“Errors in the Research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman” — Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution post on the AI audit: 138 papers, 2,035 problemsBoaz Barak: “We organized the Model Spec around five core values” — the OpenAI alignment update Liron compares to Asimov’s three laws“An Updated Model Spec for More Capable and Beneficial AI” — OpenAI’s announcement“Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs” — TNW on the Stanford GSB talk Liron quotes on alignment and pacing“Satya Nadella says he was wrong to think AI alignment would come with scale” — TNW on his 20VC interview: “I used to always think that alignment will just fall out. I no longer believe that.”“OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems” — Zvi Mowshowitz on OpenAI’s training “pause”<a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia
- 1 weeks ago2h 15m
Zack Korman, Cybersecurity Expert, Is Confident That Humanity Will SURVIVE
Cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur Zack Korman is an increasingly prominent nondoomer voice on Twitter. Naturally, with AI now breaking out of sandboxes and hacking corporate systems, people want to hear what cybersecurity experts have to say. So I’m thrilled that Zack was brave enough to face me on Doom Debates!Zack was reading Nick Bostrom at Oxford and worrying about AI doom as far back as 2016, but his views have since shifted. In a recent post, he writes: “This focus on AI causing human extinction is going to get people killed.” Now he expects security failures to give humanity plenty of opportunities to learn, fight back, and stop risky superintelligence development if necessary.We argue about whether sandboxing and AI monitoring are hopeless strategies, whether competing superintelligences would keep each other in check, whether to expect instrumental convergence, and more.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QJTeZfx1ZLkTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:01:15 — Introducing Zack Korman00:03:41 — From Law to AI Security00:09:17 — Why Zack Stopped Being a Doomer00:12:03 — What’s Your P(Doom)?™00:21:00 — Why Zack Supports AI Safety00:25:54 — Believing in Superintelligence00:30:06 — AI Without Tools00:39:42 — Warning Shots and Time to React00:46:08 — A Country of Geniuses in a Datacenter00:55:55 — Can We Sandbox AI?01:05:58 — Monitoring and Layers of Defense01:14:49 — Riding the Doom Train™01:22:23 — The Case for Accelerating01:24:46 — AI CEOs and the Transfer of Power01:34:19 — Who Presses the Stop Button?01:41:38 — Humans, Bacteria, and the Limits of Power01:48:30 — When Would Zack Pause AI?01:56:13 — Will Different AIs Keep Each Other in Check?02:06:11 — Can Progress Turn Against Us?02:08:35 — The Ideological Turing Test02:14:58 — Closing ThoughtsLinksZack Korman on XZack Korman’s websiteZack Korman: “AI doomers are furious”Zack Korman: “AI doomers are anti-security”Zack Korman: “3 reasons sandboxing won’t secure your AI agent”Zack Korman: “This focus on AI causing human extinction is going to get people killed.”METR’s investigation of the OpenAI–Hugging Face incidentThe PHP Foundation: “Today’s PHP Security Release, and How We’re Strengthening PHP Security”Nick Bostrom: SuperintelligenceCenter for AI Safety: Statement on AI RiskEliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesAI 2027Zvi Mowshowitz: “The Three AI Pills”PauseAIEliezer Yudkowsky: “Value is Fragile”Aaron Scher at MIRIDoom Debates: Robin Hanson vs. Liron Shapira — Is Near-Term Extinction From AGI Plausible?Doom Debates: OpenAI’s BOMBSHELL Hack — Swarms of Agents, Zero-Day Exploits, & Misaligned AIDoom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates</a
- 2 weeks ago1h 29m
“AI Chernobyl” Will Scare Trump and Xi To Order An Immediate Pause — Jeremie & Edouard Harris
Physicists Jeremie and Edouard Harris, co-founders of Gladstone AI, are preparing for an “AI Chernobyl” warning shot.If that forces Trump and Xi to negotiate an AI slowdown, the Harris brothers want to ensure the US has the enforcement tools to make the deal stick. More specifically, they want verification technologies developed and vetted before the crisis hits, alongside enforcement capabilities to deter cheating.Yet when I bring up Eliezer Yudkowsky’s writing on the possibility of airstrikes on rogue data centers as a last-resort treaty deterrent, they push back. They also don’t share my enthusiasm for PauseAI, expressing uncertainty about whether the movement has been net beneficial.Jeremie and Edouard have earned a ton of credibility:• They redirected their careers around the AI threat as far back as 2015, stepping away from their Y Combinator startup before ChatGPT even launched and brought AI into the mainstream.• They’ve built relationships with senior government decision-makers without a prior national security background.• They’ve demonstrated a talent for public communication in their excellent Joe Rogan appearances.In this episode, they bring a level of multi-step strategic thinking that I rarely explore. But I can’t help wondering whether a catastrophe 50 times worse than the Hugging Face incident would let world leaders move much faster on a global AI pause treaty than they expect.Let’s see if they can convince me that an emergency US–China agreement is our best path to a safer world.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4jmFcE4WZ7MTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:00:53 — Introducing Jeremie and Edouard Harris00:02:16 — The GPT-3 Wake-Up Call00:03:59 — AI Risk Outside the EA Community00:08:49 — The Harris Brothers’ Backgrounds00:16:37 — Yudkowsky and Many-Worlds Quantum Mechanics00:22:00 — SharpestMinds and Leaving Academia00:25:04 — Briefing the US Government00:33:01 — How Gladstone AI Pays the Bills00:35:00 — The Trump–Xi Phone Call00:39:29 — Pacing Isn’t Pausing00:42:45 — Defining AI Chernobyl00:44:07 — Verifying China’s AI Slowdown00:47:10 — Espionage and Lab Security00:54:10 — Offensive Operations and Deterrence00:57:47 — The US–China AI Lead01:05:27 — Why a Treaty Won’t Happen01:08:01 — Red Lines and Enforcement01:16:25 — Warning Shots and Extinction01:21:26 — What’s Your P(Doom)?™01:24:39 — PauseAI and Movement Politics01:29:16 — Wrap-UpLinks• Their treaty analysis: “Arms control negotiators think there won’t be a U.S.-China AI treaty”• The Endgame — the Harris brothers’ Substack• Gladstone AI• Their 2024 government-commissioned AI action plan• Their 2025 report: America’s Superintelligence Project• Eliezer Yudkowsky’s 2023 TIME essay advocating a global shutdown• Joe Rogan Experience #2156 — Jeremie and Edouard Harris, May 2024• Joe Rogan Experience #2311 — Jeremie and Edouard Harris, April 2025• PauseAI US• PauseAI Global• Join the Doom Debates DiscordDoom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe
- 3 weeks ago1h 46m
The Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky — with Holly Elmore, PauseAI US
Dr. Holly Elmore is the founder and executive director of PauseAI US and holds a Harvard PhD in evolutionary biology. She’s back, and this time she’s taking on none other than Eliezer Yudkowsky!She argues his public behavior is alienating the people PauseAI US needs to reach, but I wonder if she’s asking too much of the man who laid the foundation for the AI safety movement.We also clash over Yudkowsky’s coherent extrapolated volition. She thinks the theory doesn’t properly factor in humanity’s consent, but I argue that’s already embedded into the CEV framework.Holly and I dive into the rationalists’ involvement in a controversial kink scene, John Wentworth’s defunding news, transhumanism, pacing the frontier, and “Holly’s Basilisk”—her case for sending AI lab employees to jail.It’s another great episode with one of the most controversial—and thoughtful—thinkers in AI safety. Enjoy!Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8mS3kC-SUTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:01:09 — Holly Elmore and PauseAI’s Political Breakthrough00:07:36 — Pause AI vs. “Pacing the Frontier”00:14:17 — Holly’s Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky00:16:20 — Coherent Extrapolated Volition and Pivotal Acts00:31:19 — Brain Copies, Consent, and Self-Determination00:36:56 — Transhumanism, Dyson Swarms, and Humanity’s Future00:45:36 — The Missing Democratic Checkpoint00:51:04 — Yudkowsky’s Role in Accelerating AI01:02:48 — Genius, Arrogance, and Rationalist Culture01:10:14 — The Aella Photo and Holly’s Breaking Point01:20:21 — John Wentworth’s Grant Controversy01:28:17 — PauseAI US’s Rules and Red Lines01:32:05 — Poe’s Law and the Cost of Sarcasm01:36:18 — Holly’s Case for Jailing AI DevelopersLinksDonate to PauseAI USHolly on XHolly’s SubstackPacing the Frontier letterJacob Coxon’s resignation postPauseAI leadership disendorsement letter, reproduced on LessWrongHolly on movement infighting — No, the Judean People’s Front should not just get along with the People’s Front of JudeaCoherent Extrapolated Volition — Eliezer Yudkowsky (2004 PDF)Pivotal act — Eliezer Yudkowsky (Arbital mirror)Genes did misalignment first — Holly ElmoreHolly’s reaction to the Yudkowsky/Aella photoOn Kink & Status in the Rationalist Community — John Wentworth (October 8 response)Holly’s basiliskAre We a Circular Firing Squad? — previous Holly Elmore episodeLet’s Call Out the AI Doom Enablers — previous Holly Elmore episodeJoin the Doom Debates DiscordDoom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe
- Oct 7, 20261h 7m
AI Has Become Profoundly WEIRD, But Is Anyone Noticing? With Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse
Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse is an AI safety writer and researcher who went down the AI doom rabbit hole in 2023 and never came back up. After a year as digital communications officer at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), she’s gone independent to speak her mind unfiltered.Read Sarah’s Substack: https://longerramblings.substack.comJoin PauseAI UK’s March Against AI Extinction in London on November 21: https://luma.com/pauseai-nov26Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDbHCKwuMrkTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:00:41 — Introducing Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse00:02:06 — How a Humanities Grad Got AGI-Pilled00:08:40 — Whose Timelines Do You Trust?00:11:32 — Joining the UK AI Security Institute00:15:47 — What AISI Actually Does00:19:23 — Verifying Anthropic’s Mythos Claims00:21:59 — Leaving Government to Speak Freely00:23:22 — What’s Your P(Doom)?™00:25:37 — Yudkowsky, EA, and Keeping Your Identity Small00:32:08 — Is Anthropic Doing Enough to Call for a Slowdown?00:35:56 — Can You Do AI Safety from Second Place?00:39:20 — Hugging Face and the Vibe Shift00:44:02 — Is Everything Weird Yet?00:48:27 — Prevent Recursive Self-Improvement, Don’t Ban It00:52:28 — Build the Speed Dial, Not the Pause Button00:56:54 — Was Calling for a Pause in 2023 a Mistake?01:01:22 — Turning Up the Fear Dial01:04:23 — Donation Drive01:05:11 — PauseAI UK’s March Against AI ExtinctionLinksSARAH HASTINGS-WOODHOUSESarah’s SubstackSarah on X (@littIeramblings)Consistently Candid — Sarah’s podcast“What is recursive self-improvement and what would it mean to ban it?” — Sarah’s RSI post (Oct 1, 2026)“Is everything weird yet?” (Aug 30, 2026)“What the hell just happened?” — on AI safety’s viral moment (Sep 18, 2026)“We have been warned” — the Hugging Face hack as a warning shot (Jul 27, 2026)“The pause-shaped hole in ‘Policy on the AI Exponential’” — is Anthropic doing enough to call for a slowdown? (Jun 19, 2026)Sarah’s 2023 thread on stumbling into the world of AI doom (“I’m angry because I love the world”)“The other night I successfully AGI-pilled a man on a first date”“Welcome, and also I’m sorry” — Sarah’s note to AI safety newcomers (Sep 11, 2026)“‘We’re all f*cked and it’s totally hopeless’ is almost as bad of a meme to be spreading” (Feb 12, 2025)REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE“Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities” — AISI (Apr 13, 2026)AISI Frontier AI Trends Report (Dec 2025)“The levers of political persuasion with conversational AI” — AISI Human Influence teamUS Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) — NIST“Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build” — MIT Technology Review (May 2023)“We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky” — Bankless (2023)<a target="_blank" href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/g
- Oct 2, 20261h 18m
Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift, With Robert Wright | Nonzero × Doom Debates
Bestselling 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 much more. The Overton window is moving fast, but is the AI moving faster?Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-rc6swhQsTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:00:21 — Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates00:01:23 — Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat00:05:37 — Google Says Gemini 4 Exists00:07:41 — Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future00:12:53 — The Break-Ins Keep Coming00:15:23 — The Market Wants Agent Swarms00:18:30 — The End of “Alignment by Default”00:20:55 — The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement00:26:14 — David Sacks Can’t Explain Dario00:30:31 — The All-In Echo Chamber00:33:47 — Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker00:38:37 — Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation00:43:03 — The Elephant in the Room Is the AI00:46:21 — What the Average American Thinks00:48:17 — From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm00:54:20 — Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch00:57:07 — Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us01:00:32 — Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI01:04:01 — Liron’s Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E01:07:11 — Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me01:09:12 — Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate?01:12:48 — Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence01:17:00 — Wrap-UpLinksROBERT WRIGHT & NONZERONonzero’s post for this episode — “Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift”Subscribe to The NonZero NewsletterRobert Wright on X (@robertwrighter)The God Test — Bob’s book on AI; Chapter 14, “Enlightenment Now,” is the Steven Pinker chapter“The Singularity Is Clear” — Bob’s essay in installments on recursive self-improvement (Parts I–III)“AI and the New McCarthyism” — Bob on the pro-AI lobby smearing Sanders, Tegmark, and Krueger as China stooges (Nonzero, May 2026)Why Buddhism Is True — Bob’s 2017 bookTHE WEEK IN AIAI’s biggest players promise to police themselves at the White House — Fortune on the “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities”Major White House split on AI policy leaks as top aides freak out — The Daily Beast on the Sacks–Wiles riftFTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over possible risks to consumers — AP“We Must Pace the Frontier” — Dario Amodei’s call to slow down (with the China caveat and chip controls)China rejects Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development — Rest of WorldGoogle rolls out new Gemini model but restricts access over safety concerns — The GuardianGLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities — Anthropic on Zhipu’s open-weight modelOpenAI’s Greg Brockman backs out of second $25 million donation to AI super PAC — The New York TimesSanders convenes Chinese and American computer scientists to warn of threa
- Sep 29, 20261h 27m
Eliezer Yudkowsky Tried to “Coup the World”?! — Garrison Lovely, Author of OBSOLETE
Garrison 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 on the same page about the AI arms race, Garrison and I clash over Eliezer Yudkowsky’s role. He blames Eliezer for kicking off the superintelligence race and refers to his Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) vision as a “coup on humanity.” But I say it was actually Yud’s attempt to keep humanity in charge.Can Garrison change my mind?Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ94J4DBRkwTimestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:01:05 — Introducing Garrison Lovely00:04:23 — “Freeze AI” vs. “Pause AI”00:06:17 — Garrison’s Background at McKinsey00:10:31 — Should ICE Be Abolished?00:17:07 — How Garrison Got on the AI Beat00:22:16 — What’s Your P(Doom)?™00:23:29 — Focusing on Extinction Is a Distraction00:25:46 — Is Stopping AI an Easy Coordination Problem?00:29:02 — Society’s Immune Response to AI00:33:54 — Garrison’s P(Extinction) by 205000:37:09 — Did Eliezer Yudkowsky Start the AI Race?00:45:56 — Freeze AGI Until the Public Opts In00:50:32 — Is Coherent Extrapolated Volition a Coup?01:02:17 — Democracy, Informed Consent, and the Singularity01:11:39 — Should Eliezer Have Raised the Alarm Sooner?01:16:45 — “Classic” AI Safety Burned Its Credibility01:19:18 — Garrison’s Proposal to Stop the Race01:21:35 — Will China Agree to a Freeze?01:25:14 — Let’s Stop the “Obsoleting Project”01:26:00 — Wrap-UpLinksGARRISON LOVELY“Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It” — Garrison’s bookObsolete — Garrison’s SubstackGarrison Lovely on XOrganize Against the Machine — Garrison’s new podcast with labor organizer Cassie Pritchard“Can Humanity Survive AI?” — Garrison’s Jacobin cover story“McKinsey & Company: Capital’s Willing Executioners” — Garrison’s Current Affairs essayREFERENCED IN THE EPISODEOpen Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration — Bryan Caplan“The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction” — Wait But WhySuperintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — Nick Bostrom“AI 2040: Plan A” — AI Futures Project“An easy coordination problem?” — Katja GraceThe Hugging Face incident and the road ahead — OpenAI“Pause AI for Humanity’s Sake” — Peggy Noonan“Pause AI Development NOW” — Bernie SandersIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares“Staring into the Singularity” — Yudkowsky’s 1996 manifesto (archived)“Coherent Extrapolated Volition” — Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2004 (PDF)“Coherent Extrapolated Volition: A Meta-Level Approach to Machine Ethics” — Nick Tarleton, 2010 (PDF)Solomonoff induction — Wikipedia<a target="_blank" href="https://paulfchristiano.substack.com/p/personal-statement-on-joini
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