Eliezer Yudkowsky
Co-author with Soares of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
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This Cybersecurity Expert Is Confident That Humanity Will SURVIVE — AI Doom Debate with Zack Korman
In a debate on Doom Debates, security entrepreneur Zack Korman puts the chance of AI takeover by 2050 below 1%, arguing that layered security controls and warning incidents will give humanity chances to stop. Host Liron Shapira, who puts the risk far higher, argues sandboxes and monitoring will fail against superhuman AI.
Notes on “We’re in Triage Mode for AI Safety” by Miles Brundage
Chris_Leong posts reading notes on a Miles Brundage essay arguing that AI safety work is in triage mode. The notes add context, then collect views from Toby Ord, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Dwarkesh Patel and others for rejecting short timelines.
“AI Chernobyl” Will Scare Trump and Xi To Order An Immediate Pause — Jeremie & Edouard Harris
In a 90-minute Doom Debates interview with Liron Shapira, Gladstone AI co-founders Jeremie and Edouard Harris argue that a deadly AI incident will push Trump and Xi into a direct slowdown deal, not a Senate-ratified treaty, and that the US must build chip verification technology and covert enforcement options before then. They are unsure whether PauseAI has helped.
Deconfusing Corrigibility
In a long theory post, the author berns argues that corrigibility means respect for human authority, modelled on a healthcare proxy. The post criticises earlier accounts, including Max Harms's single-goal proposal, and offers a two-tier goal with formal results.
Holly Elmore Wants Yudkowsky to Stop Being The Face of AI Safety
A 70-second teaser from Doom Debates, titled as a clip in which Holly Elmore wants Yudkowsky to stop being the face of AI safety. The description points to the full episode; the captions hold only a short, unattributed exchange about a 'pivotal act'.
The Case Against Eliezer Yudkowsky — with Holly Elmore, PauseAI US
In a 106-minute Doom Debates episode, PauseAI US founder Holly Elmore argues that Eliezer Yudkowsky's early superintelligence plans amounted to a coup without people's consent and that Yudkowsky's public conduct alienates people the pause movement needs. Host Liron Shapira defends Yudkowsky. Elmore also describes congressional offices turning receptive and argues AI lab employees should eventually face jail.
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All
In a 76-minute Odd Lots episode, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway interview Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Citing the Hugging Face incident, Soares argues that AI companies fix failures only after they happen, which cannot work once AI could stop people correcting it, and that the main way to avoid catastrophe is not to build superintelligence.