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#108 - The OpenAI/HuggingFace "incident": Responding to Sam Harris and Ryan Greenblatt

October 6th, 2026  |  1 hr 17 mins

AI, ai safety, huggingface, llms, openai, security

The boys argue about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident. Did the agents escape, or was the door left wide open?

#104 (C&R Chap 10, Part V) - The Duhem-Quine Thesis

June 27th, 2026  |  1 hr 3 mins

AI, duhem-quine, falsification, karl-popper, logic

The boys dive into the final part of Chapter 10 of Conjectures and Refutations. Have Duhem and Quine falsified falsification?

#94 - Is AI Just a Tool? (w/ Scott Aaronson)

November 6th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins

AI, ai doom, computation, induction, quantum mechanics

Is there any reason to believe that AI's capabilities are fundamentally limited? Scott Aaronson comes on to scare us straight.

#90 (Reaction) - Disbelieving AI 2027: Responding to "Why We're Not Ready For Superintelligence"

August 17th, 2025  |  1 hr 35 mins

AI, agi, doomerism, progress, superintelligence, technology, trends

The boys are hooked on reaction videos. This time: 80,000 hours' "Why we're not ready for superintelligence."

#77 (Bonus) - AI Doom Debate (w/ Liron Shapira)

November 19th, 2024  |  2 hrs 21 mins

AI, Creativity, comedy, deep learning, existential risk, induction, knowledge, novelty, superintelligence

Part II of the great debate! Is AI about to kill everyone? Should you cash in on those vacation days now?

#76 (Bonus) - Is P(doom) meaningful? Debating epistemology (w/ Liron Shapira)

November 8th, 2024  |  2 hrs 50 mins

AI, bayes, belief, epistemology, induction, popper, prediction

We were invited onto Liron Shapira's "Doom debates" to discuss Bayesian versus Popperian epistemology, AI doom, and superintelligence. Unsurprisingly, we got about one third of the way through the first subject ...

#49 - AGI: Could The End Be Nigh? (With Rosie Campbell)

March 22nd, 2023  |  1 hr 24 mins

AI, Creativity, existential risks, progress

The delightful Rosie Campbell joins us on the podcast to debate AI, AGI, superintelligence, and rogue computer viruses.

#45 - Four Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)

October 31st, 2022  |  53 mins 29 secs

AI, complexity, intelligence

We chat with Melanie Mitchell about our understanding of artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and whether it's reasonable to expect us to be able to build sophisticated human-like automated systems anytime soon.

#9 - Facial Recognition Technology with Stephen Caines

August 6th, 2020  |  1 hr 22 mins

AI, clearview, creepy af, facial recognition, law

#7 - Philosophy of Probability II: Existential Risks

July 7th, 2020  |  1 hr 37 mins

AI, bayesianism, existential risk, expected value