Liron Shapira
Host, Doom Debates
Titles as the sources gave them. In 5 entries, with 2 checked quotations.
What they said
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“My final answer is just like I just think our position keeps getting weaker, not stronger, right?”
“Maybe he should have known that he shouldn't do it, but by the standards of a human, I think he's acted with a lot of integrity and he doesn't really deserve much blame.”
In the Base
Every entry they appear in.
Is an AI Bubble Bursting? With Robert Wright's Nonzero Podcast
According to the description, Liron Shapira of Doom Debates and author Robert Wright discuss the week's stock market jitters, Google's new interactive world model, OpenAI's alignment approach and pause, the Binance hack, Anthropic's finances, and whether AI could crack the maths behind encryption.
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.
“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.
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.
AI Has Become Profoundly WEIRD, But Is Anyone Noticing? With Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse
According to the episode description, Liron Shapira talks with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse, an AI safety writer and former UK AI Security Institute communications officer. Chapters cover Anthropic's Mythos claims, a slowdown, and preventing recursive self-improvement.