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Every Student is CHEATING with AI — College in the AGI Era (feat. Sophomore Liam Robins)
Liam Robins, a math major at George Washington University, confirms what many of us suspected: everyone in college is cheating with AI now.
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Liron Shapira
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Liam Robins
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Carl Feynman, AI Engineer & Son of Richard Feynman, Says Building AGI Likely Means Human EXTINCTION!
He witnessed Eliezer’s AI doom argument taking shape in 2003 before most of us were paying any attention.
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Liron Shapira
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June 2025

Richard Hanania vs. Liron Shapira — AI Doom Debate
Let's uncover where he gets off the AI "doom train"
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Liron Shapira
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Richard Hanania
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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.
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Liron Shapira
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Will AI Have a Moral Compass? — Debate with Scott Sumner, Author of The Money Illusion
Where Prof. Scott Sumner, a well-known macroeconomist, get off the Doom Train?
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Liron Shapira
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Scott Sumner
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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. But here's why it's actually dumb…
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Liron Shapira
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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…
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Liron Shapira
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Poking holes in the AI doom argument — 83 stops where you could get off the “Doom Train”
Let's walk through the series of claims and arguments involved in concluding that P(Doom) from artificial superintelligence is high.
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Liron Shapira
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May 2025

Q&A: Ilya's AGI Doomsday Bunker, Veo 3 is Westworld, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and much more!
Plus proof of humanity and CAIS firing John Sherman, Bayesian networks, and AI consciousness!
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Liron Shapira
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🥳 5,000 subscribers live Q&A! Ask me anything…
The live Q&A was Wednesday, May 28 at 12-1:30pm Pacific Time (GMT-7)!
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Liron Shapira
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This $85M-Backed Founder Claims Open Source AGI is Safe — Debate with Himanshu Tyagi
Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a Professor of Engineering and co-founder of Sentient, and thinks open source AI is the best and safest option for humanity. I…
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Liron Shapira
1:21:46
Emergency Episode: John Sherman FIRED from Center for AI Safety
My friend John Sherman from the For Humanity podcast got hired by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) two weeks ago. Today he suddenly got fired.
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Liron Shapira
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