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

Come with me into the world of PlzDontKillUs, a bold new AI x-risk communication accelerator program that just finished its first cohort.PlzDontKillUs took the influencer-house formula and moved it to Berkeley, giving creators personal mentorship from AI safety experts like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. With 57 people making daily videos for a month, the program racked up over 100 million views.Find out how Aella, an independent sex researcher, and Ronny Fernandez, a generalist at Lightcone Infrastructure, teamed up to run the largest ever creator bootcamp focused on AI x-risk reduction.Then meet three of the program’s top creators: Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver, and Josh Thor.We do a post-mortem on PDKU and ask: Was it effective? What are creators taking from it, and do they have complaints? And does doomerism really boost view counts? PlzDoEnjoyOur special episode on PlzDontKillUs!Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPsjMCG7Ic8Timestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:01:19 — Introducing PlzDontKillUs & Aella00:09:33 — Aella Being Early to AI Doom00:14:45 — The Origin of PlzDontKillUs00:19:08 — How It Went00:25:40 — Complaints with Prize $$00:29:33 — Aella, What's Your P(Doom)?™00:31:14 — Transhumanism & AI Girlfriends00:34:38 — Aella Rides the Doom Train™00:38:08 — Introducing Ronny Fernandez00:41:21 — Running Lighthaven00:47:18 — Life Inside PDKU00:52:35 — Smashing the Overton Window00:59:27 — Ronny, What's Your P(Doom)?™01:05:41 — Brangus Lore, No Cringe, No Disgust01:16:57 — Introducing Avisha NessAiver01:17:44 — How He Makes Viral Hits01:22:16 — Award-Winning Explainer Vid01:26:51 — Avisha, What's Your P(Doom)?™01:32:11 — Introducing Avalon Warren01:35:49 — Normalizing AI Doom01:37:53 — Avalon, What's Your P(Doom)?™01:39:27 — Introducing Josh Thor01:41:36 — Josh, What's Your P(Doom)?™01:44:34 — Josh's Hits: Cover Song & Soares Collab01:47:50 — Josh's Critiques of PDKU01:52:05 — Cold-Emailing a Politician01:54:07 — Donation Drive01:55:01 — Outro: What Are You Fighting For?LinksPlzDontKillUs (applications open for round two) — https://pleasedontkillus.comAella on X — https://x.com/Aella_GirlAella's Substack (Knowingless) — https://aella.substack.comRonny Fernandez's Substack (Brangus) — https://ratorthodox.substack.comRonny Fernandez on X — https://x.com/RatOrthodoxAvisha NessAiver — Distilled Science on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/distilledscience/Distilled Science (site) — https://distilledscience.xyzAvalon Warren on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/avalonwarrenn/Josh Thor on X — https://x.com/joshthor9Josh Thor — "Last Year Alive" ("Last Friday Night" AI apocalypse parody, ft. Eliezer Yudkowsky and a Nate Soares sax solo) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fYIm72GqrETyler Alterman — "What are you fighting for? AI safety professionals answer" (the closing montage) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sN1VfVAp6oNate Soares — "AI Danger But You Don't Understand Full Sentences" (caveman video, script by Josh Thor) — https://www.instagram.com/p/DboGRisxC2E/Avisha's AI water-use misinformation debunk (8.5M views) — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbXV6j9k8JE/Avisha's award-winning "clearest AI x-risk explainer" — https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZeRT4gIq0/Avisha's viral "Tingles and Touch" oxytocin video — https://www.instagram.com/p/DIxMLxkuhCl/Avalon — "if the AI apocalypse is coming, might as well dress c